Mike and Beth's Adventures

Background The Lincoln Highway holds a fascination for many people.  This is easy to understand as it was the first transcontinental automobile highway in the United States.  It connected New York to San Francisco.  A fellow named Carl Fisher provided the leadership which organized automobile enthusiasts and industry supporters to form the Lincoln Highway Association (LHA).  This group selected the route for the highway and worked with local resources to create an improved coast to coast highway.  Route selection was completed in 1913 and the goal was to complete a rock covered highway in time for the 1915 Pan-American Exposition in San Francisco.  It was estimated that a hardy and self reliant traveler could make the automobile trip from New York to San Francisco in about 30 days. The East Coast had a head start as wagon roads had been laid out and  improved over time.  In Pennsylvania the Lancaster to Philadelphia Turnpike, the Conestoga Trail a...

We departed for Green Turtle Bay as the sun was rising Green Turtle Bay is an inflection point on our Loop Adventure.  On one hand, it is a welcome respite from the rigors of travelling with the high levels of commercial barge traffic which we encountered all the way from Chicago to this marina.  GTB, as it is affectionately known, is an oasis.  It is a resort community that makes it easy to stay and savor.  We've certainly done so.   On the other hand, we are less than a week of travel from crossing our wake and completing our Loop.  We are going to delay our completion by taking a side trip to Nashville.   We have friends to visit, a concert to attend (Thanks Gary and Anne!), and a side trip to Asheville North Carolina to see where my father was born.  Additionally, this is a spot where many of the friends we've made during our Loop are continuing on to various points south.  Many started in Florida and will finish there. ...