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Built for the Backroads
This weekend was a little less about chasing forgotten places and a little more about making sure I can keep getting to them. I finished swapping out the brake system on my adventure vehicle with all-new components, including performance calipers, ceramic brake pads, and drilled and slotted rotors. It may not be the most glamorous…
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The Art Drop Adventure
The Forgotten Main Street Free Art Drop is taking a little turn — and around here, we already know there are No Wrong Turns. Instead of simply announcing where the next Oklahoma Art Drop is located, Dixie is going to make you work for it just a little. Every other week or so, a few FMS…
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The Last Free Art Drop at Cogar
Today I made one last trip to the old APCO station in Cogar, Oklahoma, and left the final Forgotten Main Street Free Art Drop at the place where this little experiment found its home. Cogar has always been exactly the kind of place Forgotten Main Street was created to celebrate. An old gas station. A quiet Oklahoma…
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Free Art Drop: Take. Keep. Share.
FMS has always been about exploring the path less taken, finding beauty in forgotten places, and sharing a little bit of that adventure with others. Sometimes that means a photograph. Sometimes it means a story. And now, sometimes it means leaving a little piece of art behind for someone else to find. We’re calling this…
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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 Element Era: One Year In With Elvira
There are vehicles you own… and then there are vehicles that quietly become part of the story you’re chasing. In January 2025, I picked up a 2007 Honda Element EX from Peep, and it didn’t feel like buying a used car so much as inheriting a rig that already knew what kind of life it was meant to live. This…
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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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When the Road Stops You Cold
I don’t usually start a Forgotten Main Street story in a hospital room. But on Sunday, December 21, 2025, the road did what the road sometimes does – it reminded me that no matter how tough I think I am, my body gets a vote. That morning didn’t come with a warning sign—no rusty arrow…
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