Author: Robert “Dixie” Trawick
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The Mother Road, Pops Neon, and My First Drive Back
There are days when the road feels like the destination. This week I pulled into Pops in Arcadia, Oklahoma, parked, and waited—because I wanted to catch something special rolling through: The Drive Home VII: Route 66 – A Century of Adventure, a cross-country convoy traveling the full length of Route 66 from Santa Monica to Chicago. It’s part…
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Bedford Camera’s Mural Panels: Route 66 Roots, Modern Icons, and Why This Wall Matters
If you’ve ever rolled into Bedford Camera & Video in Oklahoma City, you’ve probably noticed the tall mural panels mounted along the brick exterior. They’re loud in the best way—big letters, big sky, and snapshots of Oklahoma that feel like they belong on a travel postcard… or stitched into the lining of every road trip we’ve…
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OKC Manhole Map Hunt
Forgotten Main Street usually lives on two-lane highways—rusty pickups, ghost signs, brick storefronts, and the kind of places you only find when you take the long way around. But every once in a while, the adventure isn’t out on the backroads. Sometimes it’s right under our boots in downtown Oklahoma City. If you’ve walked the…
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Forgotten Main Street Is Growing Up (Just a Little)
Somewhere between a peeling café sign in Kansas, an old truck on Route 66, and a dusty detour that definitely wasn’t fastest way home, Peep and Dixie realized something: Forgotten Main Street was never just about the lenses. Yeah, we’re still those weirdos who geek out over vintage glass, sticky aperture rings, and manual focus lenses…
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The Element Cross Country Adventure
The January 2025 trip was extra special for the FMS team as it had two purposes: vintage photography on the backroads and bringing the Element from Bellingham, WA, to Yukon, OK. The short story is simple, Peep built up an awesome adventure rig and sold it to Dixie. I flew to Peep’s hometown and we…
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November 2024 Adventure
The dynamic duo’s next road trip is scheduled for November 4, 2024, right after the wildly popular PhotoCon in Oklahoma City, OK. It’s been a long time since our last full-blown adventure in May 2023, which was based out of Las Vegas, NV, and found us traveling mainly through Nevada, Utah, and northern Arizona. Read…
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The Trip Back from Lawton, OK
There are times when a good roadtrip can ease the pains of stress and help realign your senses into a focused view of life. I love to feel the wind in my hair, either by motorcycle or open car window, while listening to the hum of the asphalt chasing sunlight and the looking for the…
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Second Adventure Trip – May 2023
Our second FMS trip started in Las Vega, Nevada with both of us flying into Harry Reid International Airport (LAS) on May 17, 2023. Peep arrived first and picked out a beautiful BMW X3 that worked flawlessly across all the different road types we encountered on the adventure. I feel that future expeditions will need…