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Brian Jewell
Brian is the CEO & Executive Editor of The Group Travel Leader Inc. During more than two decades, his career in travel journalism has taken him to 48 U.S. states and dozens of foreign countries.
The Rock Cafe is the kind of place that made Rout 66 famous. The Stroud, Oklahoma, restaurant has been a fixture of the Mother Road for decades. Even though Route 66 has been long decommissioned as a national highway, there are some 350 intact miles of it running through Oklahoma, and many of the classic […]
Is there anybody today like Will Rogers? Will there ever be? Will Rogers is a name I’ve heard before. But until I visited his boyhood home, as well as the Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore, Oklahoma, I had no idea how significant this man really was: An entertainer, a writer, a philosopher, a cowboy, […]
It’s amazing how much can change in one minute. I was 13 years old when Oklahoma City’s Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was bombed in April of 1995. purchase cialis I remember hearing about it at school that day, and I remember feeling a strange distance between myself in Kentucky and the victims in Oklahoma. […]
If you’ve ever had a television or radio show interrupted by a severe weather warning, the alert originated here: the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma. Situated on the Oklahoma University campus, the National Weather Center is actually a conglomeration of a number of government, educational and commercial weather monitoring organizations. Here in the middle […]
WASHINGTON-OREGON BORDER ““ The light comes streaming through the gaps in the curtains early this morning, and out the window of my sleeper car I can see clear blue skies and the beautiful Columbia River flowing alongside the tracks. In the wee hours of last night, the train arrived in Spokane, where it was broken […]
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK ““ Sooner or later, we all have rainy days, even at times when we are really hoping to see the sun. Today I was scheduled to take a four-mile hike around a lake in Glacier National Park with Jan Metzmaker, Director of the Whitefish Convention and Visitors Bureau. The only problem is […]
WHITEFISH, Mont. ““ A gooey mixture of cream and honey is causing flower petals to stick to the hair on my legs, and every few minutes the girl rubbing my feet stops to peel the petals off of my skin. It’s not a treatment that I’m at all used to, but my friends at the […]
SOMEWHERE IN MONTANA ““ Everything is more interesting on a train: sleeping, showering, eating, and even just getting from one place to another all feel different as you move down the railroad. Some people traveling on AMTRAK spend their entire trip in the Coach cabins, which are large, spacious and well lit, with wide, plush […]
Near GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Mont. — The Rocky Mountains come bursting out on to the planes, without warning, and almost out of nowhere. We’ve been riding through the planes for most of the day — all the way through North Dakota, and most of Montana, the landscape is flat, with only short moments of relief. […]
ST. PAUL, Minn. — It’s 10:30 p.m., and the First Class Lounge at the AMTRAK depot here in St. Paul is starting to fill up. Outside, a few dozen coach passengers sit in the waiting area; there are maybe a dozen more of us in the First Class Lounge. We’re there because we’ve booked sleeper […]
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