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. Starting in the 1920’s the art of neon lighting lit up American roadways and towns from coast to coast. In many ways it was a revolutionary as the digital artistry of today. Curiously, neon lighting made its way into the US from Europe by jumping to Los Angeles. So it’s fitting that the city of the angels is the home of the Museum of Neon Art and on this American Road TripTalk we’ll visit with Kim Koga, the museum’s director to find out about a national display of neon art at the beginnings of one of America’s great highways, Route 66.

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. When the weather person wants you to know just how cold things can get in case you were starting to feel sorry for yourself, they would probably say, “But in Cut Bank, Montana it’s 40 degrees below zero.” In our Winter 2010 Holiday Road tour we visited the Glacier Gateway Inn and Plaza in Cut Bank where former owner Ron Gustafson had built the largest penguin in the world to mark the coldest spot in the nation.

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. Route 66 has been dubbed the Mother Road and Bob Waldmire has to have been one of her favorite sons. A Tunnel Vision article in the Winter 2010 issue of American Road Magazine describes some of the unique vehicles that Waldmire used while creating his incredibly detailed pen and ink images of the American Road along Route 66 . In this American Road Trip talk, Jim Jones, the director of the Route 66 Hall of Fame and Museum in Pontiac, IL shares fond memories of an eccentric but passionate artist and the vehicles that took him from Illinois to the great Southwest.

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. “You’ll shoot your eye out!” was probably the most famous line in the movie, “The Christmas Story” but it was the infamous leg lamp that became the movie’s most famous prop. As a matter of fact it was a homemade version of the Leg Lamp that served as the inspiration that led Brian Jones in 2005 to buy the Cleveland house where the movie was shot. The full story behind the rebirth of the Christmas Story House can be found in the Grand Old US Six column written by Joe Hurley in the Vol. 8 Winter 2010 issue of the American Road Magazine. In this TripTalk, Steve Sidlecki, the executive director of The Christmas Story House and Museum fills in more of the details.

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. The city of Wheeling, W. Va is home to a treasure trove of childhood toys we all fondly remember collected in the Millers Kruger Street Toy and Train Museum. Alan Miller and his son assembled toys dating from the 1890’s along with an impressive collection of trains and housed them in a Victorian mansion. The National Road column of the American Road 2010 Winter issue tells the full story of their collection.

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. In 2010 three graduate students from California State University East Bay campus created “The Mother Road Multimedia Experience”. The project was described in the Tunnel Vision column of the Winter 2010 edition of The American Road Magazine. My American Road TripTalk guest is Ann King, one of those bright young students, who combined the best of cutting edge technology, with a 1969 Volkswagen Beetle to provide a virtual tour of a portion of Route 66.

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

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.

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.

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.