American Road Trip Talk

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Join Thomas and Becky Repp as they team up with Gary Mantz to bring you a new road trip adventure each week. American Road Trip Talk is your chance to discover the backroads that embody true Americana. As the owners and producers of award-winning American Road magazine, Thomas and Becky want your future road trip to be both interesting and exciting. By teaming up with veteran radio broadcaster, Gary Mantz, they offer up valuable road trip planning information.

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Pancake Challenge

American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road® magazine. Join Foster Braun–your host and your guide on the American Road® Trip Talk show. In the Big Foot Country of northern California, you need an appetite the size of the legendary Sasquach to beat the challenge laid down by the Seiad Valley Cafe. Find out more about this mountainous meal and the lost Stat...

Jan 13, 2011•7 min

Super-Sized Santa

American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road® magazine. Join Foster Braun–your host and your guide on the American Road® Trip Talk show. The little village of Christmas, Michigan was built on a dream in the Nineteen Thirties that was almost wiped out by fire. But the spirit of Christmas is alive and well on the shores of Lake Superior and it is home to the...

Dec 22, 2010•8 min

Buchanan Tavern

American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road® magazine. Join Foster Braun–your host and your guide on the American Road® Trip Talk show. Catalin (Cat) Bonciu is the proprietor of the Buchanan Tavern and Hotel in Mercersberg, Penn along the route of the Buchanan Highway (Hwy 16). Find out how a Romanian immigrant became fascinated with one of America's leas...

Dec 14, 2010•8 min

Cave Caroling

American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road® magazine. Join Foster Braun–your host and your guide on the American Road® Trip Talk show. Mother Nature's concert hall will ring with the sounds of the holiday season from Dec. 3-5, 2010 at the Cave of the Mounds National Landmark. Ann Wescott describes the holiday caroling tradition and the unique setting in ...

Nov 27, 2010•7 min

Bowl Plaza

American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road® magazine. Join Foster Braun–your host and your guide on the American Road® Trip Talk show. This week is all about an artistically designed restroom in Lucas, Kansas. Rosslyn Schulz, the exec. dir. of the Grassroots Art Museum in that down shares about the loving details going into this unique outhouse! See Priv...

Nov 19, 2010•10 min

Painting the Town

American Road Trip Talk, hosted by Foster Braun, is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road® magazine. This week's focus on American Road Trip Talk: Jay Allen, one of the creators of a project that salutes the Lincoln Highway by creating original murals that celebrate historic events along the roadway. Jay and artist, Bill Hueg have "painted the town" in 43 Illinois towns. See Privacy Policy at https...

Nov 11, 2010•9 min

Honest Abe

American Road Trip Talk, hosted by Foster Braun, is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road® magazine. This week's focus of American Road Trip Talk: "Honest Abe" Clymer. best known in Vandalia, IL and around the country as an Abraham Lincoln "presenter". At 6' 2" the 80 year old "Abe" Clymer is a slow talking, charming replica of one of America's greatest presidents with a bushel full of great storie...

Nov 05, 2010•9 min

American Road Trip Talk

American Road Trip Talk, hosted by Foster Braun, is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road® magazine. This week meet Erika Nelson, a regular contributing editor to American Road Magazine's Think Big column. In this interview Erika describes her passion for creating the World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/p...

Nov 01, 2010•7 min

Wholly Rollers

AMERICAN ROAD® Magazine: Join us for a discussion with Robert and Carole Phillips, co-creators of the World's Largest Fuzzy Dice. Find out how they turned their home into the Giant Fuzzy Dice Capitol of the World - wholly rollers! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Oct 31, 2007•6 min

Neon Cowboy

AMERICAN ROAD® Magazine: What neon cowboy sign is the tallest in the land? How tall is he? Who made him? Where, precisely, is he? Tune in to American Road® magazine's interview with Chris Melville, City Manager of West Wendover City, Nev. to find out the answers. www.americanroadmagazine.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Sep 07, 2007•9 min

Bigfoot-Big Heart

AMERICAN ROAD® Magazine: Amble along California's Bigfoot Scenic Byway with guide, Judy Bushy. The Byway is a breathtaking Northern California stretch running 89-miles on a portion of Highway 96 surrounded by the Siskiyou and the Klamath Mountains. www.americanroadmagazine.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Jul 26, 2007•10 min

My Blue Heaven, Part 2

AMERICAN ROAD® Magazine: This podcast is the second in a three-part series along Iowa's Blue Valley Drive. Listen as American Road staff interview Kelly Sullivan Loughren, granddaughter of the youngest Sullivan brother (of the Five Fighting Sullivans). www.americanroadmagazine.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Jul 25, 2007•9 min

My Blue Heaven Part 3

AMERICAN ROAD® Magazine: This podcast is the third in a three-part series along Iowa's Blue Valley Drive. Listen as American Road staff interview Ron Preston—at his classic service station at the crossroads of the Lincoln Highway and the Blue Valley Drive. www.americanroadmagazine.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Jul 25, 2007•6 min

Florida Mermaid Tour

AMERICAN ROAD® Magazine: Join American Road magazine staff as they interview Barbara Wynns, Mermaid Queen of Florida. www.americanroadmagazine.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 25, 2007•13 min

Henry's Rabbit Ranch

AMERICAN ROAD® Magazine: Meet Rich Henry of Henry's Rabbit Ranch and tourist Information Center—an establishment home to rabbits, and camels, and Volkswagens (Oh My!) on an old alignment of Route 66 in Staunton, Illinois. www.americanroadmagazine.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 25, 2007•11 min

My Blue Heaven, Part 1

AMERICAN ROAD® Magazine: This podcast is the first in a three-part series along Iowa's Blue Valley Drive. Listen as American Road staff interview Don Shaffer-who believes that he is the real Radar O'Reilly from Ottumwa, Iowa. www.americanroadmagazine.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Jul 25, 2007•9 min

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