Join Thomas and Becky Repp as they team up with Gary Mantz to bring you a new road trip adventure each week. American Road Trip Talk is your chance to discover the backroads that embody true Americana. As the owners and producers of award-winning American Road magazine, Thomas and Becky want your future road trip to be both interesting and exciting. By teaming up with veteran radio broadcaster, Gary Mantz, they offer up valuable road trip planning information.


Latest Episodes

Lincoln Remembered

American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. Fans of Abraham Lincoln have a very special weekend to look forward to Feb. 12-13, 2011 in Vandalia, Illinois. It was there that Honest Abe served as a young politician and it became his launching pad into history. So it is fitting that would both celebrate the great man’s life and a crucial moment in American history. JoAnn Sasse Givens, Director of Economic Development & Tourism for Vandalia will share the full details of the event in this edition of American Road TripTalk

Bronners Wonderland

American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road Magazine. Join Foster Braun, Your host and our guide on the American Road Trip Talk Show. Over 50 years ago a man named Wally Bronner, the son of German immigrants, bucked family tradition and opened a Christmas store that has become a holiday landmark throughout the Midwest. In this edition of the American Road Triptalk, you’ll meet Wayne Bronner the founder’s son and learn how Wally’s dream grew into a Christmas Wonderland the size of nearly two football fields.

Pancake Challenge

American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road® magazine. Join Foster Braun–your host and your guide on the American Road® Trip Talk show. In the Big Foot Country of northern California, you need an appetite the size of the legendary Sasquach to beat the challenge laid down by the Seiad Valley Cafe. Find out more about this mountainous meal and the lost State of Jefferson in this podcast from Rick Jones the proprietor.

Super-Sized Santa

American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road® magazine. Join Foster Braun–your host and your guide on the American Road® Trip Talk show. The little village of Christmas, Michigan was built on a dream in the Nineteen Thirties that was almost wiped out by fire. But the spirit of Christmas is alive and well on the shores of Lake Superior and it is home to the world’s tallest Santa Claus. Sharon Tesch is the proprietor of Santa’s Workshop where Christmas reigns all year ‘round.

Buchanan Tavern

American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road® magazine. Join Foster Braun–your host and your guide on the American Road® Trip Talk show. Catalin (Cat) Bonciu is the proprietor of the Buchanan Tavern and Hotel in Mercersberg, Penn along the route of the Buchanan Highway (Hwy 16). Find out how a Romanian immigrant became fascinated with one of America’s least well known presidents and restored the James Buchanan Pub and Hotel.

Cave Caroling

American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road® magazine. Join Foster Braun–your host and your guide on the American Road® Trip Talk show. Mother Nature’s concert hall will ring with the sounds of the holiday season from Dec. 3-5, 2010 at the Cave of the Mounds National Landmark. Ann Wescott describes the holiday caroling tradition and the unique setting in the lime stone caves of southwest Wisconsin.

Bowl Plaza

American Road Trip Talk hosted by Foster Braun is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road® magazine. Join Foster Braun–your host and your guide on the American Road® Trip Talk show. This week is all about an artistically designed restroom in Lucas, Kansas. Rosslyn Schulz, the exec. dir. of the Grassroots Art Museum in that down shares about the loving details going into this unique outhouse!

Painting the Town

American Road Trip Talk, hosted by Foster Braun, is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road® magazine. This week’s focus on American Road Trip Talk: Jay Allen, one of the creators of a project that salutes the Lincoln Highway by creating original murals that celebrate historic events along the roadway. Jay and artist, Bill Hueg have “painted the town” in 43 Illinois towns.

Honest Abe

American Road Trip Talk, hosted by Foster Braun, is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road® magazine. This week’s focus of American Road Trip Talk: “Honest Abe” Clymer. best known in Vandalia, IL and around the country as an Abraham Lincoln “presenter”. At 6′ 2″ the 80 year old “Abe” Clymer is a slow talking, charming replica of one of America’s greatest presidents with a bushel full of great stories.

American Road Trip Talk

American Road Trip Talk, hosted by Foster Braun, is a talk show that celebrates travel across the two-lane highways of North America. This unique broadcast is an extension of American Road® magazine. This week meet Erika Nelson, a regular contributing editor to American Road Magazine’s Think Big column. In this interview Erika describes her passion for creating the World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Versions of the World’s Largest Things.