Category: place
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Preserving the History of the Path Less Taken
Some roads seem to know us before we ever turn onto them. They don’t show off. They don’t need neon signs, tourist crowds, or a line of folks waiting to take the same photograph. They just roll quietly across the Oklahoma countryside, past wheat fields, leaning fence posts, old storefronts, and places with stories still…
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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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The Water Boy
I’m always amazed with discoveries during my urban explorations around Oklahoma City and the surrounding metro. Nearby to my favorite coffee shop, I encountered such a moment and, after a week, I’m still in awe of this sight. I’m going to leave names and locations out of this post until I’m able to find some…
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Antioch, Illinois
On a recent trip to Wisconsin, I used some time off to travel around the area in search of interesting places and people. One of the first suggestion on a Google search was Antioch, Illinois, just across the border. In this part of the country, the towns are called “villages”, so that does require a…
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Okarche, OK
Okarche is a combination of three words – OKlahoma, ARapaho, and CHEyene. The post office was established in 1890 and the town was incorporated two years before statehood, in 1905. In the 1890s, German immigrants were the largest population segment so German was widely used in the community until the US entered World War I in 1917. Afterwards,…