America’s automobile culture tends to encourage doing everything fast. However, if you insist on taking your car to the San Juan Islands, you have no choice but to slow way down. That’s because you can […]
How small is the hamlet of Skamania? So small that its focal point appears to be a general store that doesn’t have much food, there is only one gas pump, and the restroom consists of […]
Once you get past the strip development near Interstate 84, driving through The Dalles can seem like a movie set for the 1930s. Or the 1880s. Or, if you check out the petroglyphs a few […]
(EXPANDED FROM 3/16/2025) This is a photo essay that I shot over a number of years. If you don’t find graffiti sociologically interesting, then you might want to move on to the next post. Evergreen […]
I have long thought that American government could communicate more effectively if it used a senes of humor once in a while. Thus, I was intrigued by this sign on an obscure rural highway in […]
“Don’t want to rain on the parade of a nice article, but reading about Duster 340’s always makes me sad. Back in 1970 a close friend skrimped and saved all his money from summer and […]
(UPDATED FROM 2/26/2022) Willapa Bay can be a lonely place, with mile upon mile of tidelands with nary a gas station in sight. Instead, vast expanses of mud flats are occasionally punctuated by dead trees […]
(EXPANDED FROM 2/6/2023) A few years ago Curbside Classic reposted a comment from a guy named Rob who had a “soul-crushing experience” driving a 1959 Rambler American to high school hangouts (Niedermeyer, 2023). In 1968 […]
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