Lincoln Way for Mutts

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Started out the next day from South Bend. Visited the Studebaker museum, which was closed.

Also saw some pretty cool old mansions, on including this one.

Oliver mansion

Visited the Janus motorcycle factory in Goshen Indiana. Got to talk to the owners and sit on some wicked cool bikes.

Drove past the gravesite of Uncle Sam.

 

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Met a friend in downtown Fort Wayne at Cindy's diner.

This is a legit good food spot with folks who care for the food and the customer experience.

One of the high points was seeing this Sterling multi mixer that was sold to the diner by Ray Kroc, the man who later built MacDonald's into an empire.

We drove on to Lima Ohio in the dark. No dog friendly hotels before then.

 

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Cool! Not sure what that iS. Link?

It is the same podcast that I had you on last year

 

[mtn biker]

Cool! Not sure what that iS. Link?

Media Post in thread 'Classic Land Cruisers Podcast'

Apr 14, 2026

On this week's episode of the Classic Land Cruisers Podcast Rob Tygart comes back on to talk about his second King of the Hammers and racing the Bonneville salt flats and trying to reach that 100 mile per hour mark.

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Old man memory. Sorry, forgot for a moment

 

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Upper Sandusky was a goldmine of interesting Lincoln Highway relics.

First, this original 1913 ceramic marker

Then, some original brick road

Of course there was Moorice, who is a sitting cow at the fairgrounds on the way out of town

We saw a cool mural in Bucyrus.

East of Mansfield there is more original brick Lincoln Highway.

East of Ashland, John Studebaker set up his wagon shop, which would lead to his car factory

 

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We stopped in Wooster Ohio at a dog park. Of course, thousands of miles from home, Maxie finds a juicy mud bog.

Twisted Treat in Massillon Ohio

Massillon Lincoln theatre. Oldest movie theater still showing films

The Minerva Ohio dairy cow.

Ohio/Pennsylvania State line and the end of the day.

 

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First stop of the day was East Allegheny, home of the Andy Worhol museum and the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The wife went to the museum while I took dogs for a walk. Ended up nearly getting tangled up with the Pirates new manager as he was leaving his hotel to go to the stadium

George Washington in park near Worhol museum

Pirates were playing later that day

I admit. I don't get it

Pittsburgh is a roach motel easy to get into, good luck getting out

 

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Massillon Pennsylvania is a gold mine for cool Lincoln Highway roadside stuff. Giant sculptures and Americana

Honest Abe looking over his Highway

Fake Lincoln Highway. Some cities along the route created false Lincoln Highways in order to suck motorists to their downtowns

Giant model T

1913 bar, still operating

We were really looking forward to this, but closed.

 

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Hard end to the day. Flight 93 memorial. Glad we saw it though.

Hard to believe it's been 25 years

 

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Launched early and our first stop was an ice cream shop in the shape of an ice cream sundae, including the cherry on top

Everett Pennsylvania really digs George Washington

Just a big funny coffee pot

Cape Horn in the Blue ridge mountains

McConnelburg has a lifted model T truck on the side of the road

 

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Had a quick stop at Mr Ed's Elephant Emporium... Because why not?

The Cashtown Inn, where Robert E Lee met with his spies, who confidently told him there was only "a few militia" at the crossroads in nearby Gettysburg.

Another somber day on hallowed ground.

 

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As a former flintlock rifle builder, I really was excited about traveling through York, Lancaster and Bucks county, but there were no signs or monuments to the craftsman that made the settlement of America possible. But there were some cool murals.

The first post Inn in Pennsylvania

Crossing the Susquehanna

 

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Soudersburg PA has a functioning windmill/restaurant with Shoofly pie. Which appears to be identical to Chess pie or water pie. Okay if you like sugar.

Entering Philadelphia. Good memories of this town from my military contractor days.

Philadelphia City hall

Philly cheese steak with whiz and onions. As God intended it

 

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In my opinion, Washington crossing the Delaware was the greatest, most consequential occasion in our great nations history.

In just 6 days, Washington's armies enlistments would expire. His rivals were in Philadelphia lobbying for his relief as Commander in chief. Plus the Continental army had had zero success in a year and a half of war.

So Washington took his huge brass balls on his hand and crossed the Delaware on Christmas to attack a greatly superior force and routed them completely, losing just two men.

The Hessians he defeated were the same troops that murdered surrendered Continental soldiers earlier that year, but he granted them clemency and the great majority signed up to become Americans then and there.

The fledgling country got to live that day.

We don't teach the importance of The Crossing enough.

Went to the park, crossed the bridge and lost a mirror.

Ended the day near Princeton on their alumni weekend. Fun fact, I once received a job offer to be an associate professor at Princeton and a doctoral candidate at the same time, but was disqualified for both because they don't allow grad students to have a job.

**** those guys.

Some suit wearing jerk with a Navigator tried to cut me off in traffic there and I made him appreciate how little I cared about trading paint and he backed down

 

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Final day of the journey. Got up early because long freaking day

Cool old theater in Jersey City

Jersey city mural

Entrance to Holland Tunnel

Inside the tunnel

Grand Central Station

 

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Once out of the tunnel, it was quite a few blocks north along the Hudson on 9A to 42d street. Then it was a straight shot to 7th, which is coincidentally the South end of times square. Pretty cool actually.