When it rains it pours here at RetroRoadmap HQ – and March is a busy travel month for us!You all know about our Retro Roadmap Roadtrip to Austin TX but I may have forgotten to mention that it’s sandwiched between a long weekend in Key West (paying gig for RetroRoadhusband’s
For our night between Nashville and the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati! Wigwam Village #2- Cave City KY I’m a wig-wam! I’m a tee-pee! — aw, you’re two tents 😉 (insert rimshot here)
Thanks to a link from Paul Sherman (of Big Screen Boston fame) for letting me know that the movie The Friends of Eddie Coyle – filmed in and around Boston in the early 1970’s and starring Robert Mitchum – will be shown this weekend at the Museum of Fine Arts
Good morning folks – I just happened to notice randomly that none of the maps embedded at the end of my posts appear to be…appearing! Not sure why this is happening, and I’m off to retro road trip out to Harrisburg so there’s no time to don my IT hat.
The weather is supposed to be over freezing this weekend, and I’ve got a Groupon to use or lose, so tomorrow I finally hit the road again – traipsing into Philadelphia and journeying over the bridge to Pennsauken NJ and beyond. Can’t wait to show you some of my finds-
RetroRoadhusband, the dear, just surprised me with a fabulous Valentines gift – 2 tickets for us to go see Herb Alpert (of The Tijuana Brass) and Lani Hall (his wife and ex-lead singer of Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66.) These are two of my fave easy listening / jazz 1960’s
As we make plans for our retro road trip to Austin TX next month I can’t help but compare the process to what it used to be waaaay back in the 90’s when I took my first road trips out of the North East. Books, maps, guides and payphones have
While the focus of RetroRoadmap is primarily vintage retro and cool old places to go, I will always make an exception for something else cool and old and wonderful – like Milly, the last remaining Del Rubio Triplet. Through my online friendship with kitsch queen Allee Willis I’ve come to
To keep folks in the loop, there has been a fund set up to accept donations to help Steve Murray, the owner of Zap & Co. vintage store in Lancaster PA, who was critically injured when his store burned recently. The trust has been set up by his sister, Barbara
Hooray! I’m planning the first RetroRoadmap “Retro Road Trip / Rock Tour” to South By Southwest (SXSW) in Austin TX coming this March. RetroRoadhusband will be playing some gigs along the way as well, so we’re both very excited about this adventure! As you can see by taking a look
I have just finished adding each RetroRoadmap destination to the RetroRoadMAP by state– but I bet I screwed a few of them up! Let me know if you find a link to a map that no longer exists, or is broken, and I’ll send you a vintage travel postcard from
If you want to see a clue about some fun news I can’t wait to share with RetroRoadmap Readers, go over to the Retro Roadmap FB Page and see the photo I just posted a link to! Here’s the link to The RetroRoadmap Facebook Page!
For those of you who are hip to vintage trailer and camper lingo, my “clue” given on the RetroRoadmap Facebook page was pretty easy: But here’s the big reveal for everyone – if all goes well this week, RetroRoadhusband and I will soon be the proud owners of a vintage
If you are in one of the 49 states that got snow yesterday I bet you’re as ready for some vintage vacationing as I am! We’re snowbound for a few more months ’til our big road trip to Texas (!!) but in the meantime I’m digging traveling back in time
We joke in my family that you could do anything with my dad, as long as it was something he wanted to do 🙂 So we girls went to many a field trial, old book store and decoy shop. There were some times however where our interests intersected, and this
