Lincoln Way for Mutts
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Are you selling these? I would buy one for the mutts!
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Email info@mikaelasmuttmotel and they'll send you the info on ordering
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Kicked off our trip today
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2.4K views · 38 reactions | We didn’t just send them off on a road trip today… We sent them off with a piece of our hearts. ❤️🩹🐾 🚙 Miles for Mutts 2026 is officially ON THE ROAD. This morning, Drew & Ellen pulled out of the driveway with two resc
We didn’t just send them off on a road trip today… We sent them off with a piece of our hearts. ❤️🩹🐾 🚙 Miles for Mutts 2026 is officially ON THE ROAD. This morning, Drew & Ellen pulled out of the...
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Tomorrow is the big day
Epic Adventure and for a Great Cause. Looking forward to all the updates
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Sorry for the delay, but the trip I kicking my butt so far.
Started the trip at 7 am on the southeast corner of the Iowa State University campus in Ames Iowa. We easily found the Lincoln Way highway marker, which I successfully ignored from 1982 to 1987 while matriculating there.
First stop is Nevada, Iowa. The Jefferson highway intersects the Lincoln Highway there and they have a park dedicated to this fact.
There is this mural painter that travels the country painting murals on fire departments, with details about that community. He painted details about Lincoln Highway in Nevada.
Started the trip at 7 am on the southeast corner of the Iowa State University campus in Ames Iowa. We easily found the Lincoln Way highway marker, which I successfully ignored from 1982 to 1987 while matriculating there.
First stop is Nevada, Iowa. The Jefferson highway intersects the Lincoln Highway there and they have a park dedicated to this fact.
There is this mural painter that travels the country painting murals on fire departments, with details about that community. He painted details about Lincoln Highway in Nevada.
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Just east of Nevada is Colo Iowa is Niland Corner, which is a well preserved example of early 20th century motoring history. You can even still get a meal there.
Like most early roads, this major transcontinental road had sections that were never paved. Just east of Colo you hit miles of dirt.
Like most early roads, this major transcontinental road had sections that were never paved. Just east of Colo you hit miles of dirt.
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My lovely bride will attest to the fact I squealed like a little girl on Christmas every time the route turned to gravel, dirt or mud. Heaven.
Stopped in Montour Iowa to get a snap at Reds garage.
Looks like whoever is restoring it has fallen off. Lincoln Highway doesn't have the interest of route 66, so this is happening all along the route. Sad really. We are a country because things like the Lincoln Highway.
On that subject, the Lincoln Highway was not some government boondoggle. It literally came down to 5 dudes from Franklin Grove Illinois who traveled to Europe and drove around and decided that America needs roads like Europe to unite the country.
They spent their time and money to promote this idea and even financed seedling miles of pavement throughout the country.
The most active member was Henry Ostermann, who crossed the country over 100 times testing the route, which was just piecing together pre-existing roads between towns. He ended up giving his life for this cause the day after his wedding and before his honeymoon on a lonely stretch of road east of Montour Iowa. We owe as much if not more to him as any heroic soldier.
Just east of there in Tama Iowa is a Lincoln Highway bridge, still intact after 113 years on the East side of the Meskwaki Indian reservation.
Stopped in Montour Iowa to get a snap at Reds garage.
Looks like whoever is restoring it has fallen off. Lincoln Highway doesn't have the interest of route 66, so this is happening all along the route. Sad really. We are a country because things like the Lincoln Highway.
On that subject, the Lincoln Highway was not some government boondoggle. It literally came down to 5 dudes from Franklin Grove Illinois who traveled to Europe and drove around and decided that America needs roads like Europe to unite the country.
They spent their time and money to promote this idea and even financed seedling miles of pavement throughout the country.
The most active member was Henry Ostermann, who crossed the country over 100 times testing the route, which was just piecing together pre-existing roads between towns. He ended up giving his life for this cause the day after his wedding and before his honeymoon on a lonely stretch of road east of Montour Iowa. We owe as much if not more to him as any heroic soldier.
Just east of there in Tama Iowa is a Lincoln Highway bridge, still intact after 113 years on the East side of the Meskwaki Indian reservation.
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Just east of Tama, the 1913 route turns to mud. Just a note, whenever possible, we choose the earliest route possible and the 1913 route was often straightened using new roads rather than paving the old ones. So this road has never been improved.
Stopped in Stanwood Iowa for lunch
Ended the day in an old mansion being restored near Sterling Illinois
Stopped in Stanwood Iowa for lunch
Ended the day in an old mansion being restored near Sterling Illinois
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Started out day 2 with a healthy portion of gravel road. Even found a bit of unmaintained mud.
Then we headed to Franklin Grove, the headquarters of the Lincoln Highway Association. Pretty humble place for the birthplace of our first Transcontinental highway
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Met a friend in Geneva Illinois and then drove the length and breadth of Chicago. With a clutch. Screw that place. I couldn't walk afterwards.
The most Chicago thing we saw was the remains of a famous statue of Lincoln which has been pulled down by a BLM mob in 2020. If that place were nuked I'd probably applaud
The 2 years we lived there were the longest 20 years of my life.
Ended up in South Bend Indiana, tired and hangry.
The most Chicago thing we saw was the remains of a famous statue of Lincoln which has been pulled down by a BLM mob in 2020. If that place were nuked I'd probably applaud
The 2 years we lived there were the longest 20 years of my life.
Ended up in South Bend Indiana, tired and hangry.
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Cool! Not
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