WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.080 --> 00:00:11.400 Hit road. Don't you come back? Don't you come back? What you 2 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:17.359 said? What I said was it's time to hit the road America. This 3 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:26.679 is a nightcap special called the Great American Road Trip. Men, women, 4 00:00:26.839 --> 00:00:32.679 children, dogs, hopefully not tied to top of cars. We're going to 5 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:39.039 be talking about famous road trips that our guests have taken, including myself and 6 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:44.200 my wife Chris to two point zero as we continue this evening, the first 7 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:51.399 day of summer, and Americans are hitting the road in spite of the gas 8 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:57.520 prices. Let's begin. I have been looking forward to this special and this 9 00:00:57.759 --> 00:01:03.079 guest because I had him on a few months back, because his story is 10 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:07.599 just phenomenal. He is another radio host. He is on Serious XM sixties 11 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:14.519 Gold and I hope iHeart doesn't mind if I borrow him for a few minutes 12 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:18.400 or an hour tonight for the Great American Road Trip special on the Nightcap here 13 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:22.959 on seven hundred WLW. The fact that he doesn't mind is the most important 14 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:26.200 thing, and he said he'd be happy to do it. So we we'd 15 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:32.120 like to welcome in once again to the Nightcap and this special memorial night show. 16 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:36.120 Flash Phelps, How you doing Flash? All right? No? It 17 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:38.480 is great to be here on iHeart, especially on WLW. To be hurt, 18 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:42.480 I drive in my car, I'll pop up the Big seven hundred, 19 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:46.280 and I can listen almost everywhere in the entire country. I think it is 20 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:51.799 everywhere before at nighttime, if you hold your if you hold your mouth right 21 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:55.319 and there's not a storm or something going on, you can get seven hundred 22 00:01:55.359 --> 00:02:00.280 WLW on your terrestrial AM radio. There's no doubt about an. And of 23 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:04.560 course everywhere on iHeartRadio and on the stream and all the other things that neither 24 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:07.920 one of us knew about when we started in this business over four years ago. 25 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:12.759 So I was talking about that I did my show from severe Ville one 26 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:15.199 day, nobody knew, and then the next day I was doing it in 27 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:17.439 Memphis for three days and I never said where I was. And then I 28 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:22.479 did it from Withhville, Virginia and the Boss cab and he goes, what 29 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:24.039 are you doing now? He thought I was just sitting here doing the show 30 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:28.960 in my home studio, and I said, I'm in Virginia. He said, 31 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:30.879 you are flash. I've got to tell you this is one of my 32 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:35.039 this is one of my dreams, and hopefully one day I will be able 33 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:38.960 to make this happen. I pray that God will allow this is. I 34 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:45.879 want to get a nice, pretty nice RV and a satellite dish or whatever 35 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:50.680 it is you use and do my Saturday morning show on seven hundred WLW from 36 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:55.520 a different location every week. That's my ultimate retirement goal is of course, 37 00:02:55.599 --> 00:03:00.319 not to be retired, but just to do it from a different location every 38 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:02.680 week. And you would be the guy to call to find out where to 39 00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:07.000 go and how to get there. And that's why you're on the show tonight. 40 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:09.360 So I know, great, And here it is Memorial Day. It's 41 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:14.319 a great day that now it's time to travel. Absolutely people kicking in with 42 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:17.960 summer vacation. So flash philps. I'm going to put you through the put 43 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:22.199 you to the test. Now, how many counties have you missed in the 44 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:28.759 entire United States? The last time we talked, you were down two No 45 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:31.120 to no, not to two hundred and seventy. I will actually look up 46 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:36.560 the exact number for you right now because I just hit another one that I 47 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:38.439 needed to go into. And it's very cool because I'm able to do a 48 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:42.639 thing. It's a user page, and I go into it and I mark 49 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:46.520 every county. As you know, I finished Ohio and I'm only down to 50 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:51.439 one more in Indiana, which is a really good one as well. So 51 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:54.639 I'm down to one more in Tennessee. So there's three thousand, one hundred 52 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:58.840 and forty four counties, and if you let me pull it up, I 53 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:02.520 will tell you a number. It's really cool because it gives me percentages of 54 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:08.039 everything I've actually done as well. So this is that's what's really nice about 55 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:10.240 it. And by the way, if you want to follow it along and 56 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:14.080 be a part of going everywhere, it's actually called mob role, is what 57 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:15.680 that is. So there's thirty one hundred and forty four. I've been to 58 00:04:15.720 --> 00:04:19.759 two thousand, eight hundred and eighty two of the counties, leaving two hundred 59 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:24.839 and sixty two I have not been in That means I've been in ninety one 60 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:29.600 point seven percent coverage of the United States of America. And you've been in 61 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:32.360 every single state, mind you. Yeah, this is this is one of 62 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:36.560 the plums for this show tonight. And the reason you're here with me is 63 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:42.160 because you can talk authoritatively about every state in the Union. So here we 64 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:46.759 go. I'm going to put you to the test. Alphabetically, give me 65 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:51.079 somewhere that if people are going to the state of Alabama, somewhere they have 66 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:56.040 to go in Alabama. Flash. Right off the top of my head, 67 00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:59.839 I just thought a twin because it's just very cool. And here it is. 68 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:02.079 We're in the Gemini right now, which are the twins? Up in 69 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:05.360 the northwest corner right off by twenty two, there's a place called twin. 70 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:11.319 Take a picture of yourself on both sides of the sign and mix them together. 71 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:14.439 All right, it's one of the funniest signs. Okay, that's a 72 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:16.480 great one. What about Well, I got a good one. Okay, 73 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:19.959 I got it. Go ahead, No, no, I'll tell you another 74 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:27.680 great one. Gadsden, Alabama. There's an incredible waterfall that deserves right off 75 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:30.879 by fifty nine. It is so where it takes about five minutes to be 76 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:32.920 able to go over and be able to see that. I did that walk 77 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:36.279 not that long ago. But we are on the way this summer, and 78 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:41.279 it's only about another month away that we're going to have a baseball game that 79 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:45.279 is played down in Alabama's the first time we have a Major League baseball game 80 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:46.800 being played in Alabama. I guess it's one of the first. But it's 81 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:51.920 the old stadium, old stadium, so it's not Wrigley and it's it's not 82 00:05:53.319 --> 00:05:59.279 Fenway Park. This stadium is older and it's it's called Rickwood So I really 83 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:01.959 encourage people. If you're in Birmingham on the west side of town, Rickwood 84 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:05.079 Field, look it up. You go over and you can see this, 85 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:08.639 and they're going to a major League game. You remember how they've done Field 86 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:11.839 of Dreams out in the isle, right, they play games there. This 87 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:15.720 year they're going to play at Rickwood It's in July. It's coming up here 88 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:19.279 real soon, and the San Francisco Giants are going to be playing there with 89 00:06:19.319 --> 00:06:23.879 the Saint Louis Cardinals, two of the oldest teams. And again, look 90 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:29.399 up Birmingham Rickwood Field, the oldest baseball stadium still in use today in the 91 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:33.560 United States. Alaska. The first thing Alaska. I'm getting ready to go 92 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:36.800 to cat Mai. Now, kat Mai is a great place to go, 93 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:42.639 either in the very beginning of the summer around July or you go in September. 94 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:45.879 And what happens is this is where all your black bears. They have 95 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:48.720 forty four of the living there and it's in south west Alaska, right near 96 00:06:48.759 --> 00:06:53.839 to the start of the Aleutian Peninsula, and this is where the Brooks Camp. 97 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:57.199 They have Brooks Falls and you see all the bears. They come and 98 00:06:57.240 --> 00:07:00.439 they wait for the salmon to jump into the air and catch them in their 99 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:03.839 mouth, and then they have the fat bear contest that goes on to see 100 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:08.279 who's still be the fattest bear. That's a very cool one. I love 101 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:12.319 that in Alaska. I just went to last year to the Midnight Sun Baseball 102 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:15.759 game, which happens on the twenty first of June, and that is it's 103 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:18.720 really cool. They start the game at ten thirty at night, it's still 104 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:21.800 daylight. The sun doesn't go down until right before one am, and it 105 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:26.519 comes back up about three am. So they play it and then right at 106 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:29.639 midnight, as soon as that inning is over, they come out and they 107 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:32.160 sing the Alaska national anthem. I had a great time I did that. 108 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:35.920 I drove up past the Arctic Circle, which took about five hours to get 109 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:40.040 up there, but so many great things to see in Alaska. My best 110 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:44.000 time driving it. I started in Seattle, I drove all the way through 111 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:47.199 British Columbia, Yukon right into Alaska, to Toake, Alaska, came down 112 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:50.519 to Anchorage, Keene Iplin Peninsula. Oh, so much to see. Go 113 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:57.160 ahead, that is amazing. Arizona, Arizona, Oh, Arizona. Some 114 00:07:57.199 --> 00:08:00.720 of my favorites as well. Now, if you want the cooler place where 115 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:01.839 you had all the desert, obviously in the south, if you go to 116 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:05.680 Oregon Pike, which is down on the southwest side, that's right on the 117 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:11.040 Mexico border. I was so close my cell phone said, welcome to Mexico. 118 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:13.519 And if you go out, here's one of the places that wants to 119 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:16.079 become a national park. It's actually a National monument now. It's called Shirakawa 120 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:20.439 and it's down on the southeast side. So you've got to go past Tucson 121 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:24.040 to be able to see that. That's another really incredible park and they're hoping 122 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:26.439 for national park status. The other national monument. They're one of our four 123 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:31.519 hundred and twenty nine National Park sites. Okay, so that's a very cool 124 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:33.759 place to go when you're in northern Arizona. Here's one of the great places 125 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:39.080 page A lot of people miss Page. You're right on the lake at this 126 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.679 point, and it's called Lake Powell. They have the Rainbow Bridge, which 127 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:46.720 a lot of people know because of pets to that pass away, but it's 128 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:48.600 an incredible arch and you have to take a boat to be able to get 129 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:52.840 out there to it. Antelope Canyon, they have the Horseshoe part of the 130 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:58.240 Colorado River right there that you can overlooks called Horseshoe Bend. Oh so, 131 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:03.799 is there some of my favorite Arizona places ar Kansas? Oh? Yes, 132 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:05.919 And I just spent a lot of time there. I'm down the two counties 133 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:09.200 that I need. I went down there. I'm going to tell you one 134 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:11.759 of my favorite things is Glen Campbell's grave side. I know it may sound 135 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:16.919 weird, but Johnny Cash also from there. But if you're down in the 136 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:20.080 area of Texarkana and Hpe, that's where Clinton's from. You go little to 137 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:24.279 the north. They have this place called Crater the Diamonds. It's the word 138 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:26.840 that you find diamonds, Okay, so people go over there to try to 139 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:30.200 find them. Just to the south of there, there's a place called Bill'stown 140 00:09:30.440 --> 00:09:33.399 and Delight the Light. You're going to see a picture of Glen Campbell on 141 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:37.639 a billboard. You go just to the south of there, towards Bill'stown. 142 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:41.840 On your left hand side, you're going to see Campbell Cemetery. Glenn Campbell 143 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:45.320 is buried in there. Now here's why it's really incredible. There's a historical 144 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:48.879 Arkansas marker. When you walk up to it, read it. As soon 145 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:52.519 as you walk past it. His grave is only about another twenty feet beyond 146 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:58.480 it, but it triggers Glenn Campbell singing amazing grace. So as soon as 147 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:01.879 you pass the historical marker, how cool like Campbell. It's one of if 148 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:07.440 they call it the singing gravesite of Glenn Campbell. If you've never done this, 149 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:09.519 do it. Look up Campbell Cemetery. It's on Google Maps. You 150 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:15.120 can find it. Campbell Cemetery, Bill'stown, Arkansas, and Southwest Arkansas. 151 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:18.480 I highly recommend that we do not have all night so for that. For 152 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:22.240 that reason, I will skip a few states. Obviously, California has so 153 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:26.679 many places you could name, and so many place if you could if you 154 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:30.480 could select one place in California to go back to, what would it be. 155 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:33.120 Uh, here's a place a lot of people don't go on US three 156 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:37.960 ninety five in East California. On the other side of this, heire is 157 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:41.639 if You can get there in the morning, so you're in between Death Valley 158 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:45.639 and then they have a place called Movie Road. They filmed so many movies 159 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:48.919 out there. It really looks Western when you're out there. There's some incredible 160 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:52.759 beautiful views to be able to see the mountains right there, especially if you're 161 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:56.399 there in the morning sun shining on it incredible. What look up Mansanar. 162 00:10:56.519 --> 00:11:00.799 If you know where man Zinnar is, that's a place where it was an 163 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:05.559 encampment back there during the war, so that's the exact area. Look up 164 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:07.720 Movie Road. It's just really incredible. It's not too far from Bishop. 165 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:11.799 It's the Great American road Trip show. On the Nightcap on this Memorial Day 166 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:16.360 evening, our guest is Flash Phelps, who's on Sirius XMN tonight. He's 167 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:24.960 on seven hundred WLW give me give me a Colorado one oh one Colorado Maroon 168 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:26.600 Bells. If you do anything there, go to Marion Bells. It's right 169 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:31.000 at Aspen. You have to take the bus over so and set it up. 170 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:33.120 Go over on the bus. If you go earlier in the morning, 171 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:35.879 you get the sun. You want to see one of the most beautiful views 172 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:43.240 I think of Colorado maroon bells in the Aspen area, Connecticut, Connecticut. 173 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:46.960 You know, as soon as I just said that, I was thinking about 174 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:50.279 one of my favorites is the Gene Pitney. Know many of you if you 175 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:54.000 know sixties music, Geen Pitney, he's from Connecticut. They have an incredible 176 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:58.279 memorial to him. And Vernon, Connecticut's right off by eighty four. So 177 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:01.440 if you're heading up towards what I call Flash of Choosets, you're on eighty 178 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:05.279 four east of Hartford. You're gonna see the Vernon exit and then there's an 179 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:09.120 incredible memorial to Geen Pitney. It's his park. This is the first thing 180 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:11.519 I just thought of. But there are so many great things to see in 181 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:15.759 Connecticut. And I'm hearing the man who I'm hearing the man who shot Liberty 182 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:18.000 Balance in my head as you're telling you this, Well, that is right, 183 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:22.480 you know it. Well, it's called the Last Green Valley. On 184 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:26.120 the very east side, you're gonna have the interstate that goes over by Mohegan 185 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:30.360 Sun and they called that area the Last Green Valley. That is so worth 186 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:31.960 seeing as well. So that's the east part of Connecticut. But the man 187 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:37.200 who shot Liberty Valance that movie did not feature the Geen Pitney side, and 188 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:41.480 people would and people would call Gene and they go, I waited all the 189 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:43.600 time for your he goes, Oh yeah, they never used it in the 190 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:48.440 movie. That's true. Delaware, Delaware. Let's see well now that they 191 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:52.000 were the last state to be able to get a national park, and that 192 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:56.679 started out as the first state national monument that ended up turning into first state 193 00:12:56.799 --> 00:13:00.600 national historical parks. And there's a lot of great places. Lewis, Delaware 194 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:03.720 is a really great place because there's a lot of history down there. This 195 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:07.639 is right where Cape Henlopen is. If you're familiar with all of our capes 196 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:11.000 along the East coast of America, Cape Henlopen is on Delmarva, and it's 197 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:16.480 right above a Rehobot Beach. And I love even the Cape May Lewis Ferry. 198 00:13:16.759 --> 00:13:20.360 It looks like Lows, but the Lwes that's a great place. Dover. 199 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:24.960 A lot of people don't see either capital. There's two capitol buildings, 200 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:28.639 and there's a real capitol building and there's the old Capital and you can tour 201 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:31.799 inside the old Capital and it's right next to an area called the Green Again, 202 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:35.320 that's a part of First Date National Monument. So that's another great place. 203 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:39.840 Oh, Newcastle, Delaware. Love Newcastle. That is very historic. 204 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:43.600 Again a part of the First State National Monument. All right, a lot 205 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:48.559 of people from here in the Tri state area are making the trek to Florida. 206 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:50.919 I mean, everybody eventually goes to Florida, hopefully before they die. 207 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:58.279 But give me one favorite Floridian haunt of flash philps Oh gosh, I have 208 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:01.440 so many, you know, I really like the Panhandle. I'm a big 209 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:07.159 fan of the Panhandle going down from Pensacola, and especially the Dston because when 210 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:09.519 I worked in Tallahassee, Florida years ago, everybody said you got to go 211 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:13.360 to Deston and Fort Walton and I got out there and I just loved how 212 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:16.440 clear the water was. It was just one of my favorite places. But 213 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:20.480 when you're talking about going down on the Peninsula, I think everybody likes to 214 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:24.799 make a stop at BUCkies, whether or not you've gone into Yeah, in 215 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:31.840 the Saint Augustine another great place, especially going down the Space Coast. Always 216 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:35.159 so much fun around there. Do you know what their area code is now 217 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:41.000 on the Space Coast? Three two one. That's great, great, that's 218 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:45.840 they gave up. We've got a BUCkies near us in Richmond, Kentucky, 219 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:50.200 and we've got there. There's a Bucki's being built now in Ohio, the 220 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:52.480 first one in kind of in our area. I think it's going to be 221 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:56.440 a little bit north of Cincinnati, but they are building a BUCkies here. 222 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:58.480 I can't wait till it's a little bit closer. But you know, Richmond, 223 00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:01.639 Kentucky, from where I live, is not a bad day day trip. 224 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:05.679 I love day now. That's not bad. Yeah, yeah, I 225 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:09.320 love it. You do ll do you? Yeah? Yeah a lot of 226 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:11.919 times because I'll just do it on the weekend because it's like, oh, 227 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:16.240 I don't really want to put another hotel on my credit card, so I'll 228 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:20.759 do that for the extensive ones. But I can usually sometimes on the weekend 229 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:24.759 get about five hundred miles away or so, and sometimes I'll go even further 230 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:26.639 than that, but I'll try to do it. And living here in the 231 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:31.639 Maryland area, I'm right between Philadelphia and Baltimore, so I can drive up 232 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:35.240 towards New England, I can drive down to North Carolina. I could get 233 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:37.399 out to you in Cincinnati. There's a lot of area that I could do, 234 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:41.840 even just on a quick weekend. Now what do you drive? It's 235 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:46.039 a Honda Civic Alex and a lot of people want he is the twenty eighteen 236 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:50.639 and I had always gotten to see I was driving Ford Mustang and then either 237 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:52.600 of them will go over one hundred thousand miles. So when I got to 238 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:56.120 start working here in the DC and everybody heard about my driving, they said, 239 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:58.440 you should get a Honda Civic. They go, that car is made 240 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:02.200 for you. So I got my first one to know one, and then 241 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:04.559 my five. I got one to know five. That thing with three hundred 242 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:08.679 and fifty three thousand miles. Then I got a twenty twelve model in twenty 243 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:12.240 eleven, and I took had a half a million miles and it was still 244 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:15.879 getting forty two miles of the gallon. Wow. And and so between twenty 245 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:21.039 eleven all the way until twenty eighteen, I did a half a million miles. 246 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:25.639 I was averaging between sixty to eighty thousand miles driving in the United States 247 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:29.360 every single year. So that's what got me out into doing it. And 248 00:16:29.399 --> 00:16:32.799 then this latest one is twenty eighteen. Now that I found out that I'm 249 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:33.639 not going to be able to get a two door on my next one. 250 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:37.720 They're only coming in four door, but that's what I drive because it gets 251 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:41.279 me about forty four to forty five miles of the gallon on an all gas 252 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:44.879 car, and at that point in twenty eighteen cost me less than twenty twenty 253 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:47.960 one thousand dollars to buy it. Oh that's great. Yeah, good luck 254 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:52.840 finding one of those today. What about the what about the the Great State 255 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:56.480 of Georgia, the Peach State flash, Oh gosh, yeah, now North 256 00:16:56.519 --> 00:17:02.919 Georgia with all of its mountains as well. Fund I lived and worked in 257 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:06.920 Chattanooga for three and a half years. I know about North Georgia and it 258 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:12.160 is beautiful. Absolutely. So you know about going to Lake Winnipeesoca, Oh 259 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:18.160 yeah, that's a great music. Now. See that's where my mom grew 260 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:19.880 up. My mom's entire family grew up in Chattanooga. So and when we 261 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:25.160 get to Tennessee. But that whole Georgia side is just incredible. And ye, 262 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:27.880 Bucky's there off I seventy five as well. A good place, Let 263 00:17:27.880 --> 00:17:30.640 me try to find it. Here's a place that a lot of people don't 264 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:33.599 know about. Fun spot. So a lot of people think about Georgia and 265 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:37.119 they go to six Flags. But there's a great amusement park. It's just 266 00:17:37.240 --> 00:17:42.440 southwest of Atlanta by about fifteen miles and it's down there with the Fun Spot, 267 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:45.640 same name as the ones the owners that are down in Florida that have 268 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:52.119 the ones around Orlando, and they have this incredible coaster there and I just 269 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:53.119 went there like, oh my gosh, I got to go ride this thing. 270 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:56.000 And I wrote it and I was blown away by how good it is 271 00:17:56.119 --> 00:18:00.119 in a small little amusement park. It's very traditional, So that was one 272 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:04.079 of my fun spots to go there. I love Augusta. They have a 273 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:11.200 cool statue of James Brown right in downtown called the CSRA. The Central Savannah 274 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:17.319 River Area is right in that area. Tiger Georgia up in the northeast corner. 275 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:22.000 I love that Owen, especially Alpine Helen. If you've never looked up 276 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:26.359 Helen, Georgia, you know probably Helen right. Yeah. It brings you 277 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:30.279 back like you've gone to a foreign country. It's just really amazing and you're 278 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:33.400 still in Georgia. So I love that one too. We're running out of 279 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:37.079 time for this segment. We're never going to get through all fifty, but 280 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:40.559 I am enjoying a conversation. Why don't you hang around and we'll do more 281 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:44.400 of The Great American Road Trip on the night Cap with the one and only 282 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:49.000 Flash Phelps. It continues after a break. He're on seven hundred w l 283 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:56.000 W. From the sands of Fallushah to the frozen forest of the Ardennes, 284 00:18:56.680 --> 00:19:02.559 from the waters of the Coral Sea to the skies over Kandahar. Brave American 285 00:19:02.680 --> 00:19:07.400 men and women made the ultimate sacrifice fighting for our nation and our way of 286 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:12.519 life. This Memorial Day, take a moment to remember them, their dedication 287 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:19.079 and their courage. Seven hundred WLW. Last season, millions tuned into the 288 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:25.039 Betrayal Podcast to hear a shocking story of deception. I'm Andrea Gunning and now 289 00:19:25.079 --> 00:19:37.680 we're sharing an all new story of betrayal on road again. Just wait to 290 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:48.000 get on again while I love this Magan music with my friend all roll in 291 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:52.640 and tonight. The music we're making is the sound of the highway beneath our 292 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:59.039 wheels. The Great American Road Trip Nightcap Special continues. I'm Gary Jeff Walker 293 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:04.319 talking about places you might want to go with people who, in some cases 294 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:12.880 have been everywhere. Man, They've been everywhere we continue on seven hundred WLW. 295 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:18.599 We continue an hour long conversation on the Great American Road Trip Special with 296 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:23.960 Flash Phelps, who was a serious XM radio personality and tonight he's a radio 297 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:29.920 personality On seven hundred WLW, Gary Jeff Walker on the night Cap and a 298 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:33.599 very special Memorial Day show. We've been going through. If you didn't tune 299 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:37.519 in before, you have to hit the podcast. Folks. We've been going 300 00:20:37.559 --> 00:20:42.039 through places to see in all fifty states. I'm sure we're not going to 301 00:20:42.039 --> 00:20:45.559 get through the list because well there are fifteen. We've only got so much 302 00:20:45.640 --> 00:20:49.599 time. But we're up to Hawaii. And now did you drive? Did 303 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:56.160 you? Did you drive your Honda Civic to Hawaii? No? And the 304 00:20:56.240 --> 00:20:59.319 fact the way I got into radio was I want a trip to Hawaii. 305 00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:03.799 Well sort of I was. My sister heard the collage on the radio back 306 00:21:03.880 --> 00:21:06.240 when I was seventeen years old, and she said, they're giving away a 307 00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:08.319 trip to Rio de Janeiro and you have to figure out all these songs. 308 00:21:08.359 --> 00:21:11.400 I figured out all those songs. I called and the program director was on 309 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:14.920 the air. He said how old are you? I said seventeen. He 310 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:15.599 said, you got to be eighteen to win. I said, I have 311 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:18.640 all the answers. I read them to you. He goes, if you're 312 00:21:18.680 --> 00:21:21.279 eighteen, you'd be going to Rio. Well, the next week they had 313 00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:23.200 a trip to Hawaii. I figured out all the answers. I called my 314 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:27.039 sister. I told her, and she called and she got everyone right. 315 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:33.680 We want a trip to Hawaii. And then we paid for her brother in 316 00:21:33.720 --> 00:21:37.440 law. I said, no, no, you and your husband go and 317 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:40.079 she said, no, no, no, you got all the answers. 318 00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:41.480 You got to go. We'll pay for him to go. So the three 319 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:45.160 of us went. In my senior year, the first time I ever went 320 00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:48.519 to Hawaii. I've been eight times to Hawaii, and I've been to every 321 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:52.000 county. There's five counties in Hawaii. And the one place I want to 322 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:53.839 bring up about Hawaii, I love the big island. A lot of people 323 00:21:53.880 --> 00:21:56.759 don't go over there in Kawaii and Owah, who is you know all the 324 00:21:56.799 --> 00:22:00.839 city? But let me tell you about the island of right on the north 325 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:06.799 side, that was where those that had Hanson's disease were taken. And there's 326 00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:11.759 this volcanic peninsula and it's called the Kala Papa Peninsula. In fact, that 327 00:22:11.839 --> 00:22:14.720 first time I went, when we flew up, they just flew us by 328 00:22:14.759 --> 00:22:17.960 it. They went on the north side of Molokai and it was just really 329 00:22:17.960 --> 00:22:21.279 incredible to see. Well, now I wanted to go to it because that's 330 00:22:21.279 --> 00:22:25.039 a county. There's four main counties in Hawaii, and I needed to get 331 00:22:25.079 --> 00:22:29.599 to that one. It's called Kalauaiso County. It's the smallest county anywhere in 332 00:22:29.599 --> 00:22:33.079 the United States. So I had to go there and I hiked down. 333 00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:36.440 So you had to get permission to be there and then be on a tour 334 00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:40.319 because of Hanson's disease being down there. And I went and did the tour. 335 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:44.200 One of the most incredible things I did in Hawaii. If you get 336 00:22:44.200 --> 00:22:48.400 a chance, take the trip to the Kalapapa Peninsula. It's a National Historical 337 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:52.359 Park. Amazing site to see and you can ride them mule down. You 338 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:55.920 can fly in, and I just so I did. I flew what's called 339 00:22:55.960 --> 00:22:59.000 top side, and then I walked down by myself. I went all the 340 00:22:59.039 --> 00:23:02.039 way to the bottom, did the and then they flew me back to Oahu. 341 00:23:02.319 --> 00:23:04.640 So I do highly recommend that one. That's a big one. Idaho, 342 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:08.759 the Land of Potato. Yeah, one thing a lot of people don't 343 00:23:08.759 --> 00:23:12.799 see are craters of the moon. So it's in the eastern side. So 344 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:17.839 if you go over to the Grand Tetons of Wyoming and Yellowstone just on the 345 00:23:17.839 --> 00:23:21.079 west side, go over to see craters of the moon. In fact, 346 00:23:21.119 --> 00:23:25.200 the first atomic city is where that's locate. It's called Arco in Idaho. 347 00:23:25.480 --> 00:23:27.000 And then you have the Bitterroot Range that goes all the way up and one 348 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:32.119 of the great places that were named after Lewis and Clark. As you probably 349 00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:36.039 know the story coming by Cincinnati. Yep, there's Lewis coming by and he 350 00:23:36.079 --> 00:23:40.000 meets up with Clark down there in the Louisville area. Well, by the 351 00:23:40.039 --> 00:23:44.359 time they get all the way out there off the Clearwater River, they meet 352 00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:48.440 the Snake River, and there's a great town called Lewiston, Idaho. On 353 00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:52.640 the other side, it's called Clarkston, Washington, and it's the el c 354 00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:56.240 Valley named after Lewis and Clark. And just to be able to see the 355 00:23:56.319 --> 00:24:02.319 views from there really incredible. I'd say Lewis and Ida. See, that's 356 00:24:02.359 --> 00:24:07.599 the thing that along with all these destinations and neat places that are sometimes off 357 00:24:07.640 --> 00:24:11.039 the beaten path that people don't necessarily think of Flash. That's one of the 358 00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:15.519 reasons we're doing the show. There is so much history embedded in all of 359 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:21.799 these trips that you have taken and you have seen. Yeah, And I'll 360 00:24:21.799 --> 00:24:25.319 tell you what, I didn't pay attention in history a lot. And then 361 00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:27.039 when I went out and I started doing radio and I saw these, I 362 00:24:27.079 --> 00:24:30.480 said, I wish I paid attention more in school, because now I'm looking 363 00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:33.480 it all up again, going, oh see, now it makes sense. 364 00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:38.240 I've seen this history in person. Yeah. Absolutely. I grew up for 365 00:24:38.319 --> 00:24:44.039 a few years in the state of Illinois. We lived there from sixty five 366 00:24:44.440 --> 00:24:48.880 to seventy three, so I was a very young child and started elementary school 367 00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:52.160 there. And one of the things they did in the state of Illinois back 368 00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:57.839 then in public education was they taught a lot of Illinois history along with American 369 00:24:57.920 --> 00:25:03.160 history. Is there any outside of Lincoln's tomb in Springfield? Is there any 370 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:07.640 great historical marker that you'd like to mention about the state of Illinois? Flash, 371 00:25:07.720 --> 00:25:11.240 Yeah, Actually, this isn't going to be a historical marker that there's 372 00:25:11.319 --> 00:25:14.880 Ronald Reagan was by the way, Ronald Reagan was the only US president that 373 00:25:15.079 --> 00:25:18.559 was born in the state of Illinois. A lot of people think it's Lincoln, 374 00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:21.440 but Lincoln was born in Kentucky, went to Indiana, then Illinois. 375 00:25:21.519 --> 00:25:23.799 So here's where I always tell people to go. If you're on I seventy, 376 00:25:23.839 --> 00:25:27.119 you're coming out of Tarahood, Indiana, and you're heading right down into 377 00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:30.440 Saint Louis. You're on I said, hey, look for the town you're 378 00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:33.799 going to see it. Say Casey. Now they pronounced it with a Z 379 00:25:33.079 --> 00:25:37.039 sound on that s Casey, Casey, Illinois. They started putting up the 380 00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:42.240 world's largest whatever that. Little by little they kept on adding to the world's 381 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:47.720 largest. So they started with the windshimes, then the sea saw, then 382 00:25:47.839 --> 00:25:52.480 the bird cage one day after the golf club, the giant mouse trap. 383 00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:56.920 You go into that downtown area of Casey, Illinois, and you will be 384 00:25:56.039 --> 00:26:00.480 so entertained with the photo ops that you get right there. The world's largest 385 00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:04.240 barber pole, it's just so much fun. The world's largest truck key. 386 00:26:04.839 --> 00:26:08.200 Oh, it's hilarious. Just have a really good time. And you can 387 00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:12.000 even go inside some of the places and they even have world's largest in there. 388 00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:15.880 I've seen videos and I've seen news stories on Kazy, Illinois and the 389 00:26:15.880 --> 00:26:22.759 world's biggest whatever. Nothing, I'm sure nothing like experiencing that in person. 390 00:26:22.839 --> 00:26:26.440 And that is a doable road trip from here. Oh yeah, I'll tell 391 00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:30.119 you. What's really doable is our next door neighbors. If you're in Ohio 392 00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:34.279 or Kentucky of Indiana. Tell me about Indiana, Indiana. Well, I 393 00:26:34.319 --> 00:26:37.400 was glad to be able to work there for five years and just so much 394 00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:41.000 fun to be able to drive around the I'm trying to think of just one 395 00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:47.319 place to be able to see when I'm like an Indianapolis place as well. 396 00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:52.359 The Giant Dinosaur LTE. People miss this on the north side of downtown Indianapolis. 397 00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:56.759 They're the Children's Museum. Have you ever seen the giant dinosaurs that are 398 00:26:56.880 --> 00:27:00.960 standing up and they're looking in the windows and they're breaking out. Yes, 399 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:03.880 that's a great shot. There's also not too far away from there, there's 400 00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:08.240 a crooked house. This is a house that goes up and it bends over 401 00:27:08.319 --> 00:27:11.200 and the top of the house is back at the ground, so it makes 402 00:27:11.480 --> 00:27:15.240 a U turn. I've never seen that. That's again. Look for the 403 00:27:15.359 --> 00:27:19.279 U turn house that is right there in Indianapolis as well. That's a great 404 00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:23.079 one. They now have these Indie signs that you can find. Oh, 405 00:27:23.160 --> 00:27:29.839 I know what I like. Over there is the birthplace of right of Wilbur 406 00:27:29.960 --> 00:27:33.680 right wilver Wright's birthplace, right off the I seventy. It's right not too 407 00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:37.359 far away from Richmond, Indiana. And you head over there and do you 408 00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:40.960 know there's an airport in the backyard of his birthplace. Now, no, 409 00:27:41.079 --> 00:27:44.279 they put one in. Yeah, so there's an airplane there. You know 410 00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:48.599 how Ohio is obviously for the aviation, but he was born, Yeah, 411 00:27:48.680 --> 00:27:52.279 because when the Bazarble was born in Ohio, but Wilbur was born in Indiana. 412 00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:55.759 And you go over there and it's so cool. They have an airport 413 00:27:56.119 --> 00:27:59.160 right in back of his birthplace. So that's a fun place to see. 414 00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:04.279 What about hi birth state? Speaking of birthplaces of Iowa, Oh, great 415 00:28:04.279 --> 00:28:07.680 Iowa. There's ninety nine counties. I've been to eighty of them. There's 416 00:28:07.880 --> 00:28:12.240 nineteen of them I haven't been in right now. But some of my favorite 417 00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:15.720 places of the Hoover birth site, which is right there near Iowa City. 418 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:21.599 They now have all the Hawkeye statues right there around Iowa City, and great 419 00:28:21.599 --> 00:28:25.440 places the bridges of Madison County. I remember seeing the movie with Clint Eastwood 420 00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:26.400 MARYL. Street, and I said, I got to go see that, 421 00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:30.319 So I went over. I made sure I knew which bridges were using in 422 00:28:30.359 --> 00:28:33.920 the movie. There were only two of them that were used. And you 423 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:37.680 go over into winter set. Now the sad thing is back just a couple 424 00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:41.400 of days ago, just west of Winterset, Iowa, where the bridges of 425 00:28:41.400 --> 00:28:45.279 Madison County are. That's where they had that terrible tornado that just happened back 426 00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:51.359 on Wednesday night when it happened. But that area right there, beautiful, 427 00:28:51.359 --> 00:28:55.119 those bridges of Madison County. And go see John Wayne's birthplace. That's one 428 00:28:55.119 --> 00:29:00.680 of my favorite Iowa places. Kansas staying in the Midwest, yeah, another 429 00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:03.279 great one to be able to see. And my favorite thing is all the 430 00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:07.400 way out in the west. It's called monument rocks. I have shown people 431 00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:11.240 photos of me standing at monument rocks in Kansas and I say which state did 432 00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:17.160 I take this in? And they'll all say Arizona, Utah, and they're 433 00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:19.440 getting New Mexico. No, Kansas, And they look at it, they 434 00:29:19.480 --> 00:29:25.480 say, Kansas. How red rocks. You got to look at the western 435 00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:27.720 edge of Kansas. Out there, it's the Mountain time zone by the time 436 00:29:27.759 --> 00:29:32.079 you get out there, right near the Colorado border, look up monument Rocks. 437 00:29:32.079 --> 00:29:34.119 It's a dirt road, but it is so worth going. Dodge City, 438 00:29:34.200 --> 00:29:37.359 Kansas one of the great places. One thing people miss is the ninety 439 00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:41.559 eleven Memorial in Dodge City, Kansas. But it's all about gun smoke and 440 00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:45.920 you can play poker with I think it's Bat Masterson in there as well, 441 00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:51.039 and a James R. Nest statue was there. So Dodge City. By 442 00:29:51.079 --> 00:29:55.400 the way, Dodge City is the windiest city in the United States. Amarillo, 443 00:29:55.519 --> 00:29:59.440 Texas is second on the list. The windy city is not really Chicago, 444 00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:02.920 that's true. I did not know that. It's the great American road 445 00:30:02.920 --> 00:30:06.720 trip. Flash Phelps is our guest for the remainder of the hour here on 446 00:30:06.759 --> 00:30:10.240 the Nightcap on seven under WLW. Okay, we're going to stay close to 447 00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:15.039 home here looking for day trips in the Commonwealth, in the bluegrass of Kentucky. 448 00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:18.079 Flag What do you got? Oh? Yeah, well, you know 449 00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:21.799 what. I enjoyed the arc. I did go down to be able to 450 00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:26.160 do that. Yeah, my wife wants to do that. Is it worth 451 00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:29.200 the trip? It was? Yeah, there's three floors. I thought it 452 00:30:29.319 --> 00:30:30.480 was some people will come back and they'll say, oh, it wasn't worth 453 00:30:30.519 --> 00:30:33.000 it. But it's up to you, you know whether or not what you 454 00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:37.000 like. I just liked the photo op, and the photo op was better 455 00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:41.640 in the morning because the view is looking towards the west. So I just 456 00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:45.759 thought that the photos were all very cool and I thought it was entertaining to 457 00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:48.599 be able to see that I'm going around Lexington. A lot of people miss 458 00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:51.839 the Secretariat Statue, which is on the west side is back in that. 459 00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:55.359 You got to look it up. Secretariat Statue. These it's not in downtown. 460 00:30:55.680 --> 00:31:00.319 But the one thing that is in downtown Lexington is you can run make 461 00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:03.200 it look like you're in a horse race. And the best photo op is 462 00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:06.000 to start running with it, and if you do it on video, you 463 00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:07.920 can stop it and make it look like you're in front. But look forward. 464 00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:12.799 In downtown Lexington, the horse race it's called the Thoroughbred Park, is 465 00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:15.680 a fun one to be able to see right there. I really enjoyed. 466 00:31:17.480 --> 00:31:21.160 I really enjoyed the National Corvette Museum in Bowling, ger Oh. I love 467 00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:25.119 that. Yeah, Now did you go before or after the after floor? 468 00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:29.160 After? You did go after, so you saw the hole yep. Yeah, 469 00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:32.519 well there you go that they pretty much covered it up. Now they 470 00:31:32.599 --> 00:31:38.279 pretty much come they let the they have a plexiglass over the little hole leading 471 00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:44.519 down to as far down as it actually collapsed, the sinkhole. And uh, 472 00:31:44.599 --> 00:31:48.319 they still have one car that they could not restore that they brought up 473 00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:52.960 and it's there in the museum. So it's it's pretty neat, I tell 474 00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:56.599 you what. Before our time is all up, let's let's skip ahead to 475 00:31:56.119 --> 00:32:00.799 Ohio where we are located right now. And I know there are probably several 476 00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:06.480 locations in Ohio you could recommend to people who are listening who might not want 477 00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:09.920 to take a trip five hundred miles away, but just a day trip. 478 00:32:10.920 --> 00:32:14.640 Yeah, definitely. Have you done put In Bay? I think Putting is 479 00:32:14.680 --> 00:32:19.039 one of the Yeah, yeah, Kelly Kelly, Yeah, South Bass or 480 00:32:19.079 --> 00:32:22.119 Middle Bass Island and Kelly Island and that whole, that whole area. I've 481 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:27.079 got some friends who are actually from Oak Harbor near Port Clinton, which is 482 00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:30.240 just a hop, skipping a jump away from the ferry ride. And have 483 00:32:30.359 --> 00:32:36.279 you since we're speaking of this, you've been to Port Clinton, Ohio obviously 484 00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:38.759 to get on the boat to go to uh, put In Bay, okay, 485 00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:45.839 yeah, oh yeah, a lot. Have you been to the Jolly 486 00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:51.599 Roger for fresh fish out of Lake Erie. No, there's a lot of 487 00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:53.000 things. I don't to around the food, the whole things. I like 488 00:32:53.039 --> 00:32:55.920 that because I'll go out and I see the sites, I get the photos, 489 00:32:55.960 --> 00:33:00.240 but I usually don't have as much time for the food. So that's 490 00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:02.440 what I should do. Jolly Roger. The Jolly Roger, it's there in 491 00:33:02.519 --> 00:33:07.440 Fort Clinton, and there's use. Typically there's a line out the door, 492 00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:12.759 especially on a weekend night. But if you like fresh fish, it is 493 00:33:12.839 --> 00:33:17.480 absolutely wonderful. I highly recommend it. Oh cool, I just saw the 494 00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:21.799 something in Ohio and I think it's still there. It's over at the Convention 495 00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:24.240 Center at Columbus. So right there on the northwest side, number one, 496 00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:29.920 there's Arnold Schwarzenegger's statue there. You know why he's there because he won mister 497 00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:32.920 World in Columbus. Okay, so that's why the statue is there. Now 498 00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:37.559 inside they have the world's largest I hope it's still there, world's largest selfie 499 00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:43.279 machine. And you go in and you position your face right where it shows 500 00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:45.039 you to do the outline. They take a picture of you. You go 501 00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:50.599 back out and there's a giant head and they put your face on the giant 502 00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:53.480 statue. If you've never done this thing, it's amazing. It's inside the 503 00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:59.119 Columbus right there at the convention Center. If it's still there, it was, 504 00:33:59.240 --> 00:34:00.279 it was great. Yeah, I think it's still there. Okay, 505 00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:06.440 I've got one more recommendation for you. It's right off Highway State Route twenty 506 00:34:06.480 --> 00:34:12.119 three in Ohio near Marion, and it's a town called Waldo. Where in 507 00:34:12.119 --> 00:34:15.440 the world is Waldo? I know where Waldo is? Do you know where 508 00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:17.880 Waldo? Waldo? Is it? You know what I was counting. I 509 00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:22.000 think there are nine different places called Waldo in the country. And there's one 510 00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:24.960 in Arkansas. I was talking about Glenn Campbell and there's one. I took 511 00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:28.559 a photo with the where's Waldo there? I don't know if I've done the 512 00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:31.159 Waldo one in Ohio yet. Well, the town, the town is called 513 00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:35.639 Waldo. Yeah. And there's a place. There's a place me and my 514 00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:39.440 wife love. It's the home of the world famous Boloney sandwich. And people 515 00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:44.880 have come from all over the country to have the world famous Boloney sandwich in 516 00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:47.800 Waldo, Ohio, which is basically a wide spot in the road at a 517 00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:52.639 place called the GNR Tavern. So if you're ever in this neck of the 518 00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:55.840 woods and it's got a huge sign on the side of the building, you 519 00:34:57.159 --> 00:35:00.719 like photo ops, get the photo op on this side of the g n 520 00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:04.000 R Tavern there in Waldo, Ohio, and then go in and get yourself 521 00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:07.679 either a port tenderloin or a fried baloney sandwich. It's one of a kind. 522 00:35:08.039 --> 00:35:12.119 It's wonderful. You got to do that. You know. I've been 523 00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:15.119 to I've been to Center it what it called Center of the Universe, Ohio, 524 00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:17.639 which is actually a place which is right there in near Youngstown. I've 525 00:35:17.800 --> 00:35:21.840 never been. I've never been Center of the World. I used the Center 526 00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:23.880 of the World, Center of the World, Center of the World, Ohio. 527 00:35:24.159 --> 00:35:29.039 It's a real place, and it's right near where Neil Armstrong took his 528 00:35:29.039 --> 00:35:32.360 first flight with his dad. It's right near that McDonald you can see, 529 00:35:32.440 --> 00:35:37.400 and they made the entire Apollo eleven over there by it. But you'll go 530 00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:43.400 through Center of the World one more flash before our time runs out. I 531 00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:46.599 started my radio career and still kind of considered home, even though I've been 532 00:35:46.599 --> 00:35:52.079 in Ohio or this area for thirty years. Now Tennessee. Tell me about 533 00:35:52.119 --> 00:35:55.320 Tennessee. Oh, my gosh, Well, I spend so much time there. 534 00:35:55.320 --> 00:35:59.199 In fact, I was just doing my show from Memphis, and a 535 00:35:59.239 --> 00:36:02.800 lot of people don't know that. John Serny does some really incredibly murals all 536 00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:06.639 the way around the country, and he did one of justin Timberlake. He 537 00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:09.920 did in Aretha Franklin. He just did Tina Turner the Elvis Presley one. 538 00:36:10.119 --> 00:36:15.840 So they're also in Memphis. There's a Johnny Cash Ring of Fire statue in 539 00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:19.400 midtown right there in Memphis. That's a very cool thing to see. But 540 00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:22.320 obviously everybody just knows Graceland, but a lot of people don't know Elvis Presley 541 00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:25.760 had his first house that was on the east side of town, and so 542 00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:29.960 that's a very cool thing to be able to see. Another one of my 543 00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:34.519 favorite things, What was the one I wanted to go for for Halloween. 544 00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:37.840 There's a Halloween city that I wanted to go into, and I got, 545 00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:40.679 let me think of the name of that thing in Tennessee. Yeah, it's 546 00:36:40.679 --> 00:36:45.119 a it's a hilarious name of a town. And I just said, I 547 00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:47.639 got to go ahead and go up to this town. And I took a 548 00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:51.920 photo with it. What the heck is the name of it? Hold on, 549 00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:55.079 I have my Oh, no, you know what. Oh it's oh 550 00:36:55.239 --> 00:37:00.679 gosh, scall Oh it's called Skullbone. Skallbone, Tennessee. Where is I 551 00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:05.079 wanted to go? It is, uh, just near Paris if you know 552 00:37:05.119 --> 00:37:08.039 where Parish, West Tennessee, Sure, West Tennessee. Yeah, and just 553 00:37:08.159 --> 00:37:12.719 west of Paris, Tennessee. I went to Skullbone and they had a whole 554 00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:15.800 reason of why they called it Skullbone. And by the way, just east 555 00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:19.800 of there, they have a town called Christmasville. So I went to Skullbone 556 00:37:19.800 --> 00:37:23.639 and Christmasville on the same little trip. That's great. That was a crazy 557 00:37:23.719 --> 00:37:27.920 one. There's so many fun things to see her. I have one county 558 00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:30.079 left in Tennessee I haven't been, and so I'm working it, trying to 559 00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:35.079 go everywhere. What county have you not been in Tennessee? Oh, my 560 00:37:35.159 --> 00:37:40.519 gosh, it's the very northeastern one that's right near the Cumberland Gap of It's 561 00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:44.920 it's one of those I say it to people and they're like, oh, 562 00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:47.360 and they go, what what county is that? And hold on, I 563 00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:51.960 can actually tell you it's because you know where you've been to the Cumberland Gap. 564 00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:54.159 Yeah, Okay, here it is, David. The county I need. 565 00:37:54.159 --> 00:37:59.079 It's called Hancock County, Tennessee. It'll complete every county in Tennessee. 566 00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:05.159 And the biggest city in Hancock County is called Sneadville, Sneadville, Tennessee. 567 00:38:05.519 --> 00:38:07.960 I'm heading to Sneadville and I'm going to complete that whole state. Well, 568 00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:10.599 I'm gonna put it on the map. Thank you so much. Flash, 569 00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:15.880 what a great conversation, A neat hour on the nightcap on our Memorial Day 570 00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:19.760 night special, the Great American Road Trip. I think there's none better. 571 00:38:20.039 --> 00:38:22.320 We have one other person on the show tonight. It's been to all fifty 572 00:38:22.360 --> 00:38:27.000 states, and maybe we'll we'll compare notes. But thank you so much, 573 00:38:27.079 --> 00:38:30.880 my friend, and we'll listen for you on serious exam. Okay, well, 574 00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:34.639 thank you so much for having me here on seven hundred WLW. It 575 00:38:34.639 --> 00:38:37.400 just feels great saying that. Thank you, Garrey Jev. Listen, you've 576 00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:40.920 been making house payments for years, right and right now your home's value has 577 00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:45.280 never been higher. Right. That means you're likely sitting on a small fort 578 00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:15.119 again. We are on the road again on the Great American Road Trip. 579 00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:21.320 The Nightcap Special. I'm Gary Jeff Walker, and we continue our conversations with 580 00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:27.719 people who've been down the road and back and down the road again. It's 581 00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:34.920 the Travelog on the Nightcap and it continues now on seven hundred WLW as we 582 00:39:35.079 --> 00:39:40.239 continue our little Travellog radio program on Memorial Day night. Joining us is another 583 00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:45.599 guy who's been to all fifty states, and I wonder how common that is. 584 00:39:46.440 --> 00:39:52.840 It seems like with today's air travel and everything else, that it's pretty 585 00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:54.920 easy to, you know, fly in somewhere, But I don't think that's 586 00:39:54.920 --> 00:40:02.119 the same at all as actually getting behind the wheel and driving yourself to these 587 00:40:02.159 --> 00:40:07.119 destinations and locations. He's a guy that, through his brother Pete Whitty, 588 00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:10.360 I just got to meet over the last couple of weeks. His name is 589 00:40:10.440 --> 00:40:14.880 Rick Whitty, and he joins us on the Great American road Trip on the 590 00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:19.679 Nightcap as people are getting ready for a summer vacation and hitting the road themselves. 591 00:40:20.360 --> 00:40:22.519 So, Rick, how are you doing. I'm doing great. I 592 00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:28.199 just finished my fifty estate two weeks ago. Where'd you go, Oregon? 593 00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:32.000 What'd you think of Oregon? It's beautiful? It was. It was a 594 00:40:32.039 --> 00:40:37.159 great one to leave populated by a lot of crazy idiots. But well, 595 00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:43.119 you fly into Portland, then you get out of there. But the coast 596 00:40:42.880 --> 00:40:47.920 is incredible breath. Yeah, and we found a couple neat little towns along 597 00:40:47.960 --> 00:40:52.280 the way. We stayed in Florence, which is right on the coast as 598 00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:58.639 actually a very conservative area of Oregon. But the whole cut of state of 599 00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:02.079 Oregon is really pretty. I've heard, and I've never been, so I'm 600 00:41:02.079 --> 00:41:07.119 gonna put it on the list. Absolutely. You just recently retired, so 601 00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:12.199 you're you're looking for I mean, geez, I figured that you would get 602 00:41:12.239 --> 00:41:15.400 to all fifty states after you retired, but you were in business, and 603 00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:19.480 you traveled for business right quite a bit. Yeah, yeah, Now, 604 00:41:19.519 --> 00:41:25.760 how many of those did you see driving? I drove in every one of 605 00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:31.760 them, okay, but not not driven to get there, but driven through 606 00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:38.159 or drive to or from the airport. But I've I've you know, and 607 00:41:38.199 --> 00:41:43.280 I've never counted being in the airport as a stake. No, I don't 608 00:41:43.320 --> 00:41:45.760 think you can have to. You have to set your feet on the ground. 609 00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:50.199 You fly into Lax. You haven't been to Los Angeles or California even, 610 00:41:50.360 --> 00:41:53.880 Yeah, you got to get out and see the so today the homelessness 611 00:41:53.920 --> 00:41:59.400 and and the roller skating and Santa Monica and the rest of that stuff, 612 00:41:59.639 --> 00:42:01.719 and I and I figured it out. I think there were of the fifty 613 00:42:01.800 --> 00:42:07.960 states, eighteen of them I saw only because of business travel. Oh okay, 614 00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:10.760 so you traveled a lot when you were what'd you do for a living? 615 00:42:12.079 --> 00:42:15.280 I was in sales, so okay, mostly in the pet industry for 616 00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:19.440 the past twenty years, the pet industry. Yes, yeah, yeah, 617 00:42:19.440 --> 00:42:22.000 it's fun industry to be in. Well, yeah, absolutely. You get 618 00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:24.639 to meet all kinds of neat people, yes, a lot of them on 619 00:42:24.760 --> 00:42:30.280 four legs. Oh yeah, yeah, so you're usually the best. What 620 00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:34.440 was the first state that you went to out of You live in Ohio, 621 00:42:34.599 --> 00:42:37.239 right, right? Have you always lived in Ohio always? What was the 622 00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:40.519 first time you traveled outside the state of Ohio? How young were you in? 623 00:42:40.559 --> 00:42:45.599 Where was it? Well? If you not counting like Kentucky, Indiana, 624 00:42:46.920 --> 00:42:50.559 you know, because those are easy living in Cincinnati, right, sure, 625 00:42:50.760 --> 00:42:54.880 you're you're there. Michigan probably was the very first one. So what 626 00:42:55.079 --> 00:43:00.440 are your recollections of Michigan? And obviously you've probably been back to you stayed 627 00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:05.199 up north several times since that early visit, that's right. Any any favorite 628 00:43:05.199 --> 00:43:07.800 places in the state of Michigan that you if you go all the way north 629 00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:14.159 is my favorite area of that potent where Yeah, Pataski, that's right, 630 00:43:14.400 --> 00:43:16.559 you go up there. It is it's it's beautiful. It's a lot of 631 00:43:16.599 --> 00:43:22.039 fun neat little towns along Lake Michigan. You go up to Mackinaw Island, 632 00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:28.239 which is a step back in time and that that was that area up there 633 00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:31.719 is really wonderful. So they still not allow cars on Macinawe or correct, 634 00:43:32.039 --> 00:43:37.880 that's perfect. In twenty twenty four, still no cars cars on Macinaw Island 635 00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:42.039 and the Grand Hotels up there, which is a beautiful sea. It's wonderful. 636 00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:46.679 Yeah. Uh So do you take family trips or do you do? 637 00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:52.960 Okay, how many how many kids? You got three they're all adults, 638 00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:58.159 obvious. Sure. Yeah. But we started probably with the kids we were. 639 00:43:58.719 --> 00:44:01.119 We were one of those Cincinnati families went to Hilton Head all the time, 640 00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:05.880 you know, and that was that was a big trip every year. 641 00:44:06.199 --> 00:44:08.639 You know. Sometimes we went alone, sometimes we went with relatives, sometimes 642 00:44:08.679 --> 00:44:15.280 with friends, but Hilton Had was the go to for for our family. 643 00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:20.199 Now this is just me talking. It's just you and me. I'm not 644 00:44:20.239 --> 00:44:25.280 going to tell anybody. Do you rather travel by yourself or with the whole 645 00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:34.440 family? A little bit of both. I've always enjoyed the h in my 646 00:44:34.559 --> 00:44:38.159 business travel, the anonymity. Yeah, it's it's well, you stop when 647 00:44:38.199 --> 00:44:40.559 you want to stop, stop when you want to stop, You eat where 648 00:44:40.559 --> 00:44:47.320 you want to eat. It's just it's easier. Right, you're alone, 649 00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:52.360 you do it, you do, you go at your own pace. Do 650 00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:55.360 you have a favorite trip that you've done solo? The one you can think 651 00:44:55.400 --> 00:45:02.519 of solo and just it comes to mind? First? Yep? Alaska and 652 00:45:02.559 --> 00:45:05.960 you did that by yourself. Yeah, man, it was a business trip, 653 00:45:06.599 --> 00:45:10.239 no kidding. Where'd you go in Alaska? Anchorage and Fairbanks? Okay, 654 00:45:10.320 --> 00:45:13.639 the two cities? Yes? Did you get out of the cities at 655 00:45:13.679 --> 00:45:16.840 all? I didn't? And of the fifty states if you said, where 656 00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:21.400 would you go? Like to go back and explore Alaska? For sure? 657 00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:25.079 Number one? Sure? It is well, so much of it's untamed and 658 00:45:25.119 --> 00:45:30.960 it's just yeah and unreachable. You can't drive, well, you can't drive 659 00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:35.159 into Fairbanks. Yeah, No, you've got to fly into Fairbanks. Yeah, 660 00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:40.159 but you can drive everywhere else. I talked to Flash Phelps earlier. 661 00:45:40.159 --> 00:45:45.239 He's the other fifty stater on tonight's show, and he drove from Seattle through 662 00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:51.280 British Columbia, the Yukon right into Alaska and he's done some of that exploring. 663 00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:52.559 I'll have to hook you up with Flash so he can tell you some 664 00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:57.679 things to see when you go back to Alaska. Yeah, and then you 665 00:45:57.679 --> 00:46:00.559 know, you have all those little planes that take you and drop you off 666 00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:04.800 at different places because most of the state you can't get to by car, 667 00:46:05.360 --> 00:46:08.760 right right, Well, that kind of makes a road trip kind of difficult. 668 00:46:08.840 --> 00:46:15.880 But so is there any place that you went, uh, not for 669 00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:22.400 business, but just for fun, just for your own edification that you were 670 00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:32.880 disappointed in? Hmm? I would I would probably say most of the state 671 00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:38.559 of Florida, really, Yeah. I When you go down there, the 672 00:46:38.599 --> 00:46:46.239 way they've developed the coastlines, it's it's just building after building, And yeah, 673 00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:51.960 it doesn't to me, doesn't have much atmosphere to it. That being 674 00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:53.679 said, there are a couple of neat towns we did visit. One is 675 00:46:53.760 --> 00:46:59.079 done Eating. This little town is just west of Tampa, uh, just 676 00:46:59.159 --> 00:47:02.440 north of Clearwalk. It is a cool little town, a great spot to 677 00:47:02.599 --> 00:47:07.320 drive into spend a couple of days there, a lot of neat little restaurants 678 00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:12.480 and pubs and breweries, very quaint, very neat place. And the other 679 00:47:12.519 --> 00:47:15.400 one is Saint Augustine. Have you ever been to the Keys? Yes? 680 00:47:15.679 --> 00:47:19.360 And what did you think about the Keys? Did you go to Key West? 681 00:47:19.400 --> 00:47:22.679 We did? Yeah, what were your thoughts? It is a lot 682 00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:27.639 of fun, a lot of debauchery, and after a couple of days, 683 00:47:28.320 --> 00:47:30.679 I kind of equate it to Vegas. After a couple of days, you're 684 00:47:30.719 --> 00:47:32.760 like, I gotta get out of here. Oh yeah, I can see, 685 00:47:32.880 --> 00:47:37.440 but it is fun to see. But if you go up up the 686 00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:45.280 road into like Marathon, Key totally different atmosphere, right, yeah, so 687 00:47:45.400 --> 00:47:49.960 not as much nudity or chickens or six toed cats and everything else that you 688 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:52.800 associate with Key West. And the political climate changes too as you go up. 689 00:47:52.840 --> 00:47:57.880 Really very very liberal in Key West, right yeah, yeah, but 690 00:47:58.039 --> 00:48:01.760 Marathon total opposite. Huh Yeah. We're sitting in a pub and this guy 691 00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:07.280 sat down next to us and we started chatting. He was retired and he 692 00:48:07.320 --> 00:48:09.519 moved down there, sold his house, bought a boat, and he lives 693 00:48:09.559 --> 00:48:14.320 on his boat. Because he said something's going to happen, and when it 694 00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:16.440 does, I'm just going to get on that boat and go. My brother, 695 00:48:16.719 --> 00:48:21.840 my youngest brother, lives just north of Jupiter, Florida, on the 696 00:48:21.880 --> 00:48:25.920 Atlantic side with his wife and my wife and I Christ two point zero and 697 00:48:25.960 --> 00:48:32.280 I went last Labor Day weekend, maybe going again this year to go visit 698 00:48:32.320 --> 00:48:38.760 them. They sold their house last April and he achieved his lifelong dream of 699 00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:45.079 living on a boat, owning a boat, fifty three footer and so we 700 00:48:45.480 --> 00:48:47.559 spent three and a half days on a boat and it was great, slept 701 00:48:47.599 --> 00:48:52.159 like a baby, wonderful stuff. Man. Yeah, And I think he 702 00:48:52.239 --> 00:48:57.239 is of the same mind, you know, if it all comes down, 703 00:48:57.639 --> 00:49:01.559 he's just shoving off right and heading out on a boat. The thing that 704 00:49:01.639 --> 00:49:05.920 Florida. The thing about Florida is, especially if you're flying, I mean 705 00:49:05.960 --> 00:49:10.079 you're driving in, you get the climate change as you're going through Georgia or 706 00:49:10.119 --> 00:49:19.039 wherever, but you walk out of the West Palm Airport and that blast of 707 00:49:19.119 --> 00:49:22.079 humidity just hits you smack in the face. You know, it almost slaps 708 00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:28.719 you, all right. Do you like warm weather climbs when you travel? 709 00:49:28.840 --> 00:49:31.960 Or you said you loved Upper State Michigan. Yeah, Yeah, you know, 710 00:49:32.880 --> 00:49:37.960 if I had to choose, I'd probably go warmer. But one of 711 00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:43.559 the neatest trips we did on a personal level was up the coast of Maine, 712 00:49:44.800 --> 00:49:49.480 which is just a real treat. You know. Again, Latlow Coastal 713 00:49:49.519 --> 00:49:53.079 Town's Portland, Maine is a wonderful place to visit. But you hit there's 714 00:49:53.159 --> 00:49:57.360 Kent of Bunkport and Algunk Quit and you go all the way up to bar 715 00:49:57.440 --> 00:50:04.400 Harbor see Acadia National Park up there, and to hide there is really special. 716 00:50:05.480 --> 00:50:08.679 So that that is a great place to go. Obviously not a warm 717 00:50:08.679 --> 00:50:15.760 weather spot. But when you take a road trip and there are opportunities and 718 00:50:15.800 --> 00:50:17.960 it's amenable to do so, do you like to get out and do a 719 00:50:19.000 --> 00:50:22.119 lot of hiking and stuff like that? We do. We've started to do 720 00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:27.840 some hiking, but only you know, the day trip stuff. I'm not 721 00:50:27.920 --> 00:50:30.719 taking camping gear and going into the woods and right and setting up. I 722 00:50:30.719 --> 00:50:34.320 want to be in a hotel room in a bed at night. They're not 723 00:50:34.440 --> 00:50:37.519 You're not ranger danger. Yeah. I'm I'm a glamor all the way too. 724 00:50:37.599 --> 00:50:40.920 If I'm going to do something like that, yeah, yeah, give 725 00:50:40.960 --> 00:50:44.920 me, give me two or three hours on the trails and then let's find 726 00:50:44.920 --> 00:50:49.920 a brewery. What is the most spartan kind of place you've been to where 727 00:50:49.960 --> 00:50:57.599 there weren't all those amenities, And yeah, I would. I would go 728 00:50:57.800 --> 00:51:02.960 back to Northern Michig again. And when I started going up to northern Michigan, 729 00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:08.800 once you got above about halfway through the state, it became forest. 730 00:51:09.239 --> 00:51:13.719 Now it's all built up since, but you could go all the way up 731 00:51:13.760 --> 00:51:17.679 and there's an area called Bert Lake and that was a throwback in time. 732 00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:24.519 I was just across the across the bay from Mackinaw Island and that where there 733 00:51:24.599 --> 00:51:29.360 was really nothing around, and so that was that was kind of a fun 734 00:51:29.400 --> 00:51:32.440 place to see. But you didn't have a lot of options. Sure, 735 00:51:32.559 --> 00:51:36.960 but it's great to get away, you know what. Once you get out 736 00:51:36.960 --> 00:51:39.719 of cities and even even in the state of Ohio, and it's not like 737 00:51:39.800 --> 00:51:46.400 there aren't McDonald's and little towns or anything like that, because the civilization has 738 00:51:46.440 --> 00:51:52.239 crept in everywhere, sadly in some cases. But even getting out of any 739 00:51:52.320 --> 00:51:58.079 large city, yeah, into the smaller towns, there's still that charm, 740 00:51:58.119 --> 00:52:02.320 there's still that feeling of community without it being forced. I feel like a 741 00:52:02.320 --> 00:52:07.159 lot of times people talk about community here and it's almost like a social engineering 742 00:52:07.199 --> 00:52:10.679 force thing, you know. It's like, well, you know, our 743 00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:16.360 community is like okay, So you're making people be a part of your community, 744 00:52:16.719 --> 00:52:21.400 not that they want to. And when you get into those small areas, 745 00:52:21.559 --> 00:52:23.960 it is really as fun and you get to meet some of the locals. 746 00:52:24.280 --> 00:52:28.079 And if you spend a couple of days in a place like that, 747 00:52:28.320 --> 00:52:30.880 as small as it is, and you really get a feel for it, 748 00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:36.320 changes your whole attitude toward it. Yeah, it's fun. One of my 749 00:52:36.639 --> 00:52:42.039 other favorite vacations that I've made with my wife was I went back to my 750 00:52:42.199 --> 00:52:46.360 birth state, to the town where I was born. Never really lived there, 751 00:52:46.440 --> 00:52:52.840 always had relatives there. It's a little rural town in southeast Iowa called 752 00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:57.039 Mount Pleasant. It's in Henry County, Iowa, about thirty miles from Illinois, 753 00:52:57.079 --> 00:53:00.559 thirty miles Missouri, YEP. Town of about nine times and people. 754 00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:04.159 And yeah, they have a Walmart and they have all but it is so 755 00:53:04.440 --> 00:53:07.000 small town. It is just what we were talking about, that feeling of 756 00:53:07.079 --> 00:53:13.320 community that you don't get in any city. And it is the home of 757 00:53:13.400 --> 00:53:19.000 the Old Threshers, the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion and festival every Labor Day weekend 758 00:53:19.079 --> 00:53:23.559 and they've got all the steam tractors and threshers in this and it draws like 759 00:53:23.840 --> 00:53:28.639 a quarter million people over that weekend to this little town of nine thousand, 760 00:53:29.559 --> 00:53:32.119 and it is I highly recommend it. If you want to get away and 761 00:53:32.119 --> 00:53:37.320 see small town America. Check out Mount Pleasant, Iowa, especially that time 762 00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:42.840 of year. It's about fifty miles south of Iowa City, where the University 763 00:53:42.840 --> 00:53:45.440 of Iowa is. But it's just it's phenomenal. But it is one of 764 00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:51.199 those places like we're talking about. Florence, Oregon is kind of the same 765 00:53:51.239 --> 00:53:55.920 way. Yeah, And it's a coastal town and you can tell there's a 766 00:53:55.920 --> 00:54:00.360 lot of tourism there. But we were there off season, so we're, 767 00:54:00.519 --> 00:54:04.159 you know, going to the coffee shop in the morning and all the locals 768 00:54:04.159 --> 00:54:07.000 were there and they're all talking about the local news and what's going on, 769 00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:09.880 and you know, then you talk to them about, Okay, what what 770 00:54:09.920 --> 00:54:14.039 do I want to see while I'm here? What what do I not want 771 00:54:14.039 --> 00:54:17.400 to miss? And those are those are fun places. Yeah, you go 772 00:54:17.599 --> 00:54:22.280 to the local bar and you meet the people hanging out there and if you 773 00:54:22.360 --> 00:54:25.840 feel if you feel comfortable enough where it's a comfortable situation. That's the thing 774 00:54:25.880 --> 00:54:30.519 you do in a little place like that is you kind of quiz the people 775 00:54:30.599 --> 00:54:35.360 there about what to see, and you know, uh, okay, everybody 776 00:54:35.400 --> 00:54:39.719 knows about Applebee's, but not everybody knows about Miss Dodd's Bee House, you 777 00:54:39.760 --> 00:54:43.400 know, on the edge of town or whatever it is. Yeah. Right, 778 00:54:45.079 --> 00:54:47.320 Do you have a favorite in Tennessee because I lived for many years in 779 00:54:47.360 --> 00:54:52.239 the state of Tennessee. Well, yeah, so I had two kids who 780 00:54:52.239 --> 00:54:58.320 went to the University of Tennessee. Go Valls there, you go Big Orange. 781 00:54:59.400 --> 00:55:01.719 So you've spent a a lot of time in Knoxville, which is really 782 00:55:02.000 --> 00:55:05.920 a fun place and it's not one that a lot of people pick out, 783 00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:08.880 like I'm going to go visit Knoxville, obviously, everyone's going to go Nashville, 784 00:55:09.280 --> 00:55:13.159 yep, which is so that's where that's where I lived. Yeah, 785 00:55:13.199 --> 00:55:15.559 and it's it's a totally different town than than when I left it thirty years 786 00:55:15.559 --> 00:55:22.119 ago, obviously. Yeah. But Knoxville has has a really neat downtown area. 787 00:55:22.480 --> 00:55:24.920 I'll walk you can walk from the University of downtown. They have an 788 00:55:24.920 --> 00:55:29.840 old town square there and a bunch of different stuff to do. The River's 789 00:55:29.840 --> 00:55:34.920 there, so it's it's I think Knoxville has a lot to offer. The 790 00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:37.719 thing I was, the thing I was telling people about Tennessee and you would 791 00:55:37.719 --> 00:55:40.320 agree with me you've done all this traveling, is that Tennessee's actually three different 792 00:55:40.320 --> 00:55:45.039 states geographically. The West, you've got the it's kind of flat bluffs, 793 00:55:45.440 --> 00:55:50.679 Middle Tennessee, Nashville in that area where I grew up and and where I 794 00:55:50.719 --> 00:55:53.280 lived and started in radio, it's kind of rolling hills like Cincinnati almost, 795 00:55:53.400 --> 00:55:55.920 yes. And then you get to East Tennessee and it's the mountains, it's 796 00:55:57.039 --> 00:56:00.440 Smoky's it's the Appalachians. Yeah. So you know, you get a taste 797 00:56:00.480 --> 00:56:05.480 of three to going from end to end, from west to east. It's 798 00:56:05.519 --> 00:56:09.360 like a totally different state depending on where you're at. We're fortunate to have 799 00:56:09.400 --> 00:56:15.480 friends that have a place in Norse Lake, Oh, which is you know, 800 00:56:15.760 --> 00:56:17.559 there are so many beautiful things to see in this country that are only 801 00:56:17.599 --> 00:56:22.199 a few of them are man made. Norse Lake is actually man made and 802 00:56:22.280 --> 00:56:25.800 it is a wonderful place. Have you been to Lake Laurel in Kentucky. 803 00:56:25.840 --> 00:56:30.280 It is also a man made lake and it is beautiful, pristine. We 804 00:56:30.360 --> 00:56:35.559 took a summer trip there and rended a pontoon boat with a bunch of friends 805 00:56:35.679 --> 00:56:39.800 to spend the day out on the lake. Again, you're a world traveler, 806 00:56:39.840 --> 00:56:44.960 you've been to all fifty states, Rickquidty, I highly recommend Laurel River 807 00:56:45.039 --> 00:56:49.039 Lake. Yeah, let's see. I tell you what. We need to 808 00:56:49.079 --> 00:56:51.320 take a quick break and we'll come back and talk a little bit more. 809 00:56:51.360 --> 00:56:53.119 Okay, great, because we got a lot of ground to cover. It's 810 00:56:53.159 --> 00:56:57.679 the Great American road Trip. On the nightcap on Memorial Day Night, Gary 811 00:56:57.760 --> 00:57:01.239 Jeff, our guest in this hour's Rick, as we continue on seven hundred 812 00:57:01.280 --> 00:57:12.920 WLW. Get it great. It's just another time on the road on the 813 00:57:12.960 --> 00:57:20.360 Great American road Trip, a night camp special on seven hundred WLW. Another 814 00:57:20.480 --> 00:57:27.920 person with another travelogue as we continue our trip around the country on the air 815 00:57:28.880 --> 00:57:31.679 on this Memorial Day night on seven hundred WLW. Again, our guest is 816 00:57:31.760 --> 00:57:36.880 Rick Whitty, recently retired, just went to his fiftieth state, the state 817 00:57:36.920 --> 00:57:39.599 of Oregon. So I'll ask him the question he was asking me just a 818 00:57:39.639 --> 00:57:43.599 moment ago. Do you have any favorite big cities you like to go to? 819 00:57:43.760 --> 00:57:46.440 Rick, Yeah, and I would say it's changed over time. Chicago, 820 00:57:46.679 --> 00:57:51.079 was always a big favorite. You know, it was from Cincinnati, 821 00:57:51.159 --> 00:57:53.760 was easy to get to four and a half five hour trip. But you 822 00:57:53.800 --> 00:57:59.599 know, Chicago's changed a bit over the past five years, so not quite 823 00:57:59.639 --> 00:58:01.800 the same as it was, but still it was a fun place to go. 824 00:58:02.320 --> 00:58:07.199 I would say top of the list is Boston. Really Boston. There's 825 00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:10.840 so many things to do and see in Boston from a historical standpoint or a 826 00:58:10.880 --> 00:58:17.159 historical standpoint. Great food. Obviously, it's a walkable, very walkable city. 827 00:58:17.199 --> 00:58:22.119 Once you get there, you can put the car away and get around 828 00:58:22.639 --> 00:58:28.159 as easily as you can. Traffic is horrendous, but if you're walking, 829 00:58:28.239 --> 00:58:31.639 it's it is a wonderful, wonderful visit. I'm going to get in trouble 830 00:58:31.679 --> 00:58:35.199 for this, and I really don't care because this is how I feel. 831 00:58:35.559 --> 00:58:37.679 And it is the capital of the state of Ohio. I feel like Columbus 832 00:58:37.760 --> 00:58:44.239 is one of the most flavorless kind of I mean, there's good restaurants, 833 00:58:44.280 --> 00:58:50.239 I guess, but I when I'm traveling on a road trip to some small 834 00:58:50.280 --> 00:58:55.320 town in Ohio and I've got to go anywhere near Columbus, I avoid going 835 00:58:55.360 --> 00:59:00.599 through Columbus. It's not just a traffic I just think it is the biggest 836 00:59:00.639 --> 00:59:05.840 waste of prime farmland in the United States. Do you like Columbus, Well, 837 00:59:06.079 --> 00:59:07.840 my wife is a buck guy, so I have to like it a 838 00:59:07.880 --> 00:59:13.280 little bit. Sure. Well, see there's liking Columbus and there's being a 839 00:59:13.280 --> 00:59:15.920 Buckeye. Yeah, it's two different things. Okay, Well, even the 840 00:59:15.039 --> 00:59:20.480 Ohio state's right there in the heart of it all. I just I try 841 00:59:20.519 --> 00:59:27.079 to avoid Columbus wherever possible. And I think there's every city has something right 842 00:59:27.199 --> 00:59:30.079 and you have to find that something. Schmid's Sausage House, German village, 843 00:59:30.320 --> 00:59:37.960 there you go. What are your thoughts on Saint Louis. It's kind of 844 00:59:37.960 --> 00:59:44.840 a dirty city East Saint Louis specifically, but yeah, there's some charm in 845 00:59:44.880 --> 00:59:47.480 places like Lacleed's Landing. Like I said, every city has some place. 846 00:59:47.559 --> 00:59:51.960 Yes, down by the river. Lacleed's landing is kind of cool. Yeah, 847 00:59:52.840 --> 00:59:55.039 near the Memorial Arch. Yeah. As a kid, we went up 848 00:59:55.079 --> 00:59:59.440 in the arch. I thought it was cool, very very neat. Yeah, 849 00:59:59.559 --> 01:00:02.119 and you know, Saint Louis is not really what you'd call a destination, 850 01:00:04.320 --> 01:00:08.000 but there again, the arch. To go to a Cardinals game there 851 01:00:08.159 --> 01:00:15.320 is really something because the fan atmosphere is so different. Oh, you talk 852 01:00:15.360 --> 01:00:17.840 about Cincinnati being a baseball town, and we are, we are. We 853 01:00:17.880 --> 01:00:22.519 do love our Reds no matter how they're playing at any given moment. But 854 01:00:22.639 --> 01:00:25.480 Saint Louis, man, that's a serious baseball Oh yeah, yes it is. 855 01:00:25.800 --> 01:00:30.039 Yeah, of course. You know if you were here back then joining 856 01:00:30.079 --> 01:00:35.199 to at Badger Days, Jelly Jones came from East Saint Louis. Yeah, 857 01:00:35.239 --> 01:00:38.039 remember he played Fred Badger. We used to live in Collinsville, Illinois, 858 01:00:38.039 --> 01:00:43.559 which is just nine miles ten miles east of Saint Louis on the Illinois side. 859 01:00:44.400 --> 01:00:47.480 And one night my dad, I remember, being real young, my 860 01:00:47.679 --> 01:00:53.480 dad was looking for gas at midnight and he took a wrong turn and got 861 01:00:53.519 --> 01:00:58.719 off an East Saint Louis. You want to talk about the look on that 862 01:00:58.880 --> 01:01:04.599 man's face as he was just trying to make sure we could get home because 863 01:01:04.679 --> 01:01:08.679 he was running on fumes. It's the Great American road Trip. Memorial Day 864 01:01:08.760 --> 01:01:13.679 night on the Nightcap on seven hundred WLW, we're talking with Rick Whitty, 865 01:01:13.840 --> 01:01:17.360 who's been to all fifty states. I'm gonna I'm just gonna mention a few 866 01:01:17.360 --> 01:01:22.880 states and if you can think of something in particular, that's fine. If 867 01:01:22.920 --> 01:01:24.719 not, we'll move on. We've got fifty of them after all. Okay, 868 01:01:24.840 --> 01:01:28.920 and you've been to all and you said some were just driving through? 869 01:01:30.800 --> 01:01:36.039 Was Arkansas? Drive through? No, Arkansas is a place I visited frequently 870 01:01:36.239 --> 01:01:38.719 because I sold to Walmart. Yeah, you were in the pet food bull 871 01:01:38.880 --> 01:01:46.199 Yeah. So I was in Bentonville pretty frequently. Which when you see Bentonville, 872 01:01:46.239 --> 01:01:51.320 you see all this everything that's been built up as Walmart grew, and 873 01:01:51.360 --> 01:01:58.159 it's it's not very attractive, but they have a little downtown that has developed 874 01:01:58.239 --> 01:02:02.079 and it's bunch of shops and restaurants and a neat place to walk around. 875 01:02:02.519 --> 01:02:07.679 But the neatest thing that I saw in Arkansas was the museum, the art 876 01:02:07.760 --> 01:02:14.960 museum that one of the Walton family members built, which is you know, 877 01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:20.039 it's out of the way, right, You're not typically driving through Arkansas to 878 01:02:20.119 --> 01:02:30.159 get anywhere, but that museum that she built is amazing. Wisconsin, not 879 01:02:30.280 --> 01:02:36.039 a lot of experience in Wisconsin other than some trips up to Appleton. Eau 880 01:02:36.079 --> 01:02:42.519 Claire, Rhinelander is kind of a neat little town and I was there for 881 01:02:42.559 --> 01:02:45.480 business reasons. But one of my favorite restaurants in the whole country the Rhineland 882 01:02:45.559 --> 01:02:50.639 or pub and grill, and they do a pan fried walleye that will knock 883 01:02:50.679 --> 01:02:53.440 your socks off. Ooh, that sounds great. I'm hungry now. You 884 01:02:53.480 --> 01:02:59.280 want to talk about great restaurants that are specific to a certain area, not 885 01:02:59.480 --> 01:03:05.159 change, although they I think they opened up a couple of different ones intonations 886 01:03:05.239 --> 01:03:09.760 of Lambert's Cafeteria. Are you familiar with that name? I know the name. 887 01:03:09.920 --> 01:03:14.039 I have knocked them. Do you know why Lambert's is famous? No? 888 01:03:14.840 --> 01:03:19.360 They I think the original was in Cape Girardo, Missouri. They are 889 01:03:19.360 --> 01:03:24.360 the home of the throwed rolls. You go to this restaurant and every fifteen 890 01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:29.480 minutes somebody will emerge from the kitchen and say who wants a roll? And 891 01:03:29.519 --> 01:03:32.360 you stick your hand up and they throw the rolls from the doorway to your 892 01:03:32.400 --> 01:03:37.519 table. I mean, you better bring like your baseball glove or be sure 893 01:03:37.559 --> 01:03:42.159 handed, or you're going to miss a hot, fresh roll. I've seen 894 01:03:42.199 --> 01:03:44.960 them on the Food Network. Yeah, that's one of the places. I 895 01:03:45.039 --> 01:03:49.760 highly recommend that if you're ever in that vicinity I think of Cape Girardo, 896 01:03:49.800 --> 01:03:53.000 Missouri, you have to go to Lambert's Cafeteria and check that out. And 897 01:03:53.320 --> 01:03:58.639 I told you that I lived in the Nashville area. Actually started my radio 898 01:03:58.719 --> 01:04:04.079 career in the Nashville area back in the early eighties, and there was a 899 01:04:04.119 --> 01:04:09.000 place in Sadly it's not there. You talked about how much Nashville has changed, 900 01:04:10.000 --> 01:04:14.000 and then you kind of preferred Knoxville as far as cities in Tennessee. 901 01:04:15.000 --> 01:04:19.880 Is there a place called Arnold's And no association with the Arnolds in Cincinnati or 902 01:04:19.920 --> 01:04:26.639 the Arnold's Unhappy Days. But Arnold's was a classic what they call Meat and 903 01:04:26.760 --> 01:04:30.480 three restaurant. Are you familiar with os? Yeah? I love a good 904 01:04:30.519 --> 01:04:36.079 Meet and three. You got four or five different protein entrees on the line. 905 01:04:36.679 --> 01:04:41.400 You got you know, seven or eight vegetables that you can choose from 906 01:04:42.320 --> 01:04:46.119 fresh baked bread, usually some desserts, all for one price. You get 907 01:04:46.119 --> 01:04:51.320 a meet you get three and Arnold's was the best. Remember we had a 908 01:04:51.320 --> 01:04:56.280 little Meat in three down by Finley Market for a couple of years. Didn't 909 01:04:56.360 --> 01:05:00.280 last Cincinnati Day. Yeah, I've always I always thought if I had enough 910 01:05:00.280 --> 01:05:03.480 money and was stupid enough to start my own restaurant, it would be a 911 01:05:03.519 --> 01:05:09.679 Meat in three. And just because it didn't work before, it doesn't mean 912 01:05:09.719 --> 01:05:13.079 it won't work now. See my brother and Pete and I have talked about 913 01:05:13.079 --> 01:05:15.199 this. For us, it would be hot dogs, because you can't find 914 01:05:15.199 --> 01:05:17.880 a good hot dog in Cincinnati. You're right, those are tough. You 915 01:05:17.960 --> 01:05:23.639 know. You can find Coney's out the Ying Yang, which doesn't sound good, 916 01:05:23.679 --> 01:05:27.159 but you can find Coney's out the Ying Yang, But you can't find 917 01:05:27.159 --> 01:05:30.920 a decent like old beef hot dog. There are very few places, it's 918 01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:32.960 right, where you can get a good hot dog. Where's the best hot 919 01:05:32.960 --> 01:05:39.119 dog you ever had? On the road? Hot dogs in Chicago, which 920 01:05:39.119 --> 01:05:41.800 I don't think is there anymore. It's not. Yeah, it didn't make 921 01:05:41.800 --> 01:05:45.519 it, but it was one of those places they did all those unique sausages 922 01:05:45.880 --> 01:05:50.519 they have. You know, they'd have sausage made from boar and deer and 923 01:05:50.599 --> 01:05:56.079 elk. Yeah, and there would be a line out the door all the 924 01:05:56.119 --> 01:05:59.119 time. Yeah, he was doing a hot I saw him once on one 925 01:05:59.159 --> 01:06:02.519 of the food shows, which is how I usually travel. Yeah, and 926 01:06:02.599 --> 01:06:09.679 it was and he was bucking some ordnance they had in Chicago city limits where 927 01:06:09.679 --> 01:06:14.039 they couldn't serve fog raw, and he had fog raw on this hot dog. 928 01:06:14.559 --> 01:06:19.280 You want to talk about hoiity toyte best pizza out outside of Cincinnati. 929 01:06:19.280 --> 01:06:24.840 You can't say any Cincinnati Nola Rosa's know, nothing like that. Give me 930 01:06:24.880 --> 01:06:28.559 a best pizza on the road that you've ever had. Wow. Mine was 931 01:06:28.599 --> 01:06:32.039 also in Chicago. Mine was in Phoenix, and I'm trying to think of 932 01:06:32.079 --> 01:06:36.760 the name of it, but it was nearly downtown, kind of off the 933 01:06:36.840 --> 01:06:44.440 beaten path behind the Convention Center. And I would say very similar to the 934 01:06:44.519 --> 01:06:48.239 Corking Crust in Bellevue, which I think is a great local pizza shop, 935 01:06:48.599 --> 01:06:53.280 but this was This was in Phoenix, and that was you could just eat 936 01:06:53.320 --> 01:06:57.320 the crust. You didn't have put any toppings on that really really all right? 937 01:06:57.400 --> 01:07:00.559 Let me give you another state here. You mentioned Ball, so we 938 01:07:00.599 --> 01:07:05.159 covered Massachusetts County and that's that's a must see. Louisiana, Oh, New 939 01:07:05.280 --> 01:07:10.320 Orleans, I think is the best food city in the country. Okay, 940 01:07:10.400 --> 01:07:15.679 well what do you think of it? Otherwise, if you're in the right 941 01:07:15.719 --> 01:07:19.239 spots, you're okay. I dated a girl from Lafayette, Louisiana, where 942 01:07:19.719 --> 01:07:25.239 she was a suburb of Lafayette, and she was a self proclaimed what they 943 01:07:25.280 --> 01:07:30.760 call kunas, which is kind of part Cajun, part Indian, part whatever. 944 01:07:30.760 --> 01:07:39.559 And she called herself a counas and I went with her back home to 945 01:07:40.239 --> 01:07:45.079 her place, her parents' place in karen Crow, Louisiana. And the thing 946 01:07:45.119 --> 01:07:47.719 that struck me I did find something that I loved to this day, and 947 01:07:47.719 --> 01:07:53.639 it's you can't get it unless you order it from there. Real stuff bu 948 01:07:53.679 --> 01:07:58.480 dan, which is sausage. It's it's in a sausage casing, and it's 949 01:07:58.519 --> 01:08:01.480 pork. It's kind of I get it, well, only there's rice with 950 01:08:01.559 --> 01:08:08.920 it and spices. Boone is b o u d i n is is how 951 01:08:08.920 --> 01:08:13.960 its spelled, pronounced bude and you can only get it in you know, 952 01:08:14.119 --> 01:08:17.640 rural Louisiana, the real stuff. But I remember going into a market that 953 01:08:17.760 --> 01:08:24.199 had meat and there was in the meat case there was dove breast that somebody 954 01:08:24.199 --> 01:08:29.159 had just apparently shot and brought in and sold to the market to sell. 955 01:08:29.560 --> 01:08:33.279 Unique food choices in Louisiana, for sure. They've also got mosquitoes with that 956 01:08:33.359 --> 01:08:36.840 are so big they've got numbers on the side of them like airplanes. Well, 957 01:08:36.880 --> 01:08:41.319 my son in law is Louisiana born and bred, so a couple of 958 01:08:41.359 --> 01:08:45.239 weeks ago at our house, we had a crawl fish boiled. Oh. 959 01:08:45.359 --> 01:08:48.640 I love a crawlfish boil gave me the mudbugs baby flew in ninety pounds of 960 01:08:48.680 --> 01:08:53.600 live crawl fish and we had this boil on our back. Time that happens, 961 01:08:53.600 --> 01:08:56.760 would you give me a call, We'll do that. You're on the 962 01:08:56.760 --> 01:09:02.760 invite list. Good deal. Let's see. What do you think of Hawaii? 963 01:09:03.159 --> 01:09:10.680 Hawaii? Yeah, fortunate that made a couple of trips or our honeymoon 964 01:09:10.720 --> 01:09:15.800 was there, and then we took our kids when they were teenagers and just 965 01:09:15.000 --> 01:09:19.800 it's it's paradise. It really is. Yeah, yeah, it really is. 966 01:09:19.920 --> 01:09:24.359 It's it's as long as you're not affected or pay attention to the politics, 967 01:09:24.399 --> 01:09:27.720 it's paradise. That's true of a lot of places. You're right, 968 01:09:27.840 --> 01:09:33.239 you're right speaking of New York. Uh, the city is astounding. It'll 969 01:09:33.239 --> 01:09:40.199 wear you out, but it's it's a it's a must see to me. 970 01:09:40.319 --> 01:09:45.439 There's like New York, Las Vegas or something you have to experience at least 971 01:09:45.439 --> 01:09:48.520 once you know. You may choose not that may not be your thing, 972 01:09:48.960 --> 01:09:54.600 but to see it, the size of it is amazing, the number of 973 01:09:54.640 --> 01:10:00.479 people, everything that that it offers is really but it will wear you out. 974 01:10:00.800 --> 01:10:05.000 What about next door in jay Z, I like used to do a 975 01:10:05.039 --> 01:10:09.720 lot of trade shows in Atlantic City. But then sometimes we then take a 976 01:10:09.720 --> 01:10:13.159 couple of days and go south of there, like Ocean City, Jersey. 977 01:10:13.239 --> 01:10:18.039 It's really really neat, and Central Jersey is actually quite beautiful. Well they 978 01:10:18.319 --> 01:10:21.359 call it the Garden States. Yeah, that stills on the license plate. 979 01:10:21.520 --> 01:10:29.119 Yeah. Virginia very little time. Most of my time there was as I 980 01:10:29.159 --> 01:10:32.159 was visiting d C. And then I'd go into Virginia. But Arlington, 981 01:10:32.239 --> 01:10:40.319 As is obviously very special to see. Yeh. Texas, Oh my god, 982 01:10:40.880 --> 01:10:44.720 I wish I wish you could see the look on his face, but 983 01:10:45.199 --> 01:10:47.720 you can't see on the radio when I said Texas, and he just grimaced 984 01:10:47.760 --> 01:10:53.880 and shook his head, and oh what's terrible about Texas? I well, 985 01:10:53.920 --> 01:10:58.600 I haven't been to Austin. I've been to San Antonio, in Houston and 986 01:10:58.760 --> 01:11:02.600 Dallas, and I can't think of a reason to go back. Really, 987 01:11:02.680 --> 01:11:09.079 Yeah, I'm not Yeah, I couldn't find any space that was beautiful. 988 01:11:09.159 --> 01:11:11.600 And like I said, I haven't been to Austin, which I hear is 989 01:11:11.600 --> 01:11:15.880 a wonderful place to visit, but I've been to the other three biggest. 990 01:11:15.920 --> 01:11:17.880 What I hear about Austin is the same way you describe New Orleans or Las 991 01:11:17.960 --> 01:11:20.720 Vegas. You want to visit, you do not want to live there. 992 01:11:21.159 --> 01:11:27.039 You want to talk about some crazy mofos. Austin, Texas. Is that, 993 01:11:28.159 --> 01:11:34.039 uh West Virginia our neighbor. Oh, there's some beautiful business in there. 994 01:11:34.119 --> 01:11:42.960 There's really is. It's it's that's a different area people wise. It's 995 01:11:43.119 --> 01:11:48.680 it's an interesting crowd. Okay, well believe it there. Uh South Carolina. 996 01:11:48.720 --> 01:11:51.000 I lived in South Carolina when I was young. You know one of 997 01:11:51.000 --> 01:11:57.159 my favorites. You know that that Southern hospitality is a true thing and not 998 01:11:57.600 --> 01:12:02.199 no more than in South Carolina. I love Charleston. Charleston, absolutely love 999 01:12:02.319 --> 01:12:06.600 Charleston. Yeah, you know sometimes going to Hilton had we would instead of 1000 01:12:06.640 --> 01:12:11.560 taking the director out go over to Charleston first and then go down along the 1001 01:12:11.600 --> 01:12:20.960 coast. And Charleston's uh true old charm Minnace Noda. Right time of year, 1002 01:12:21.800 --> 01:12:28.239 it could be a lot of fun. Minneapolis, Actually downtown Minneapolis. 1003 01:12:28.279 --> 01:12:31.960 Again, there's so many the big cities have changed so much, but downtown 1004 01:12:32.000 --> 01:12:39.279 Minneapolis used to be a really great visit and they had a true skywalk. 1005 01:12:39.359 --> 01:12:45.439 You could walk all over downtown Minneapolis without going outside and so it was. 1006 01:12:45.560 --> 01:12:50.520 It was really neat, and the river's there in the in the spring and 1007 01:12:50.600 --> 01:12:55.800 summer, there's a lot of activities that go on, but man, once 1008 01:12:55.880 --> 01:12:59.119 that winter hits, it's brutal. I was a big fan of the series 1009 01:12:59.199 --> 01:13:03.119 Yellowstone, Uh, Montana recall any of that kind of thing, Yeah, 1010 01:13:03.159 --> 01:13:09.479 watching Yellowstone. Well, I didn't watch Yellowstone, but I did spend some 1011 01:13:09.560 --> 01:13:15.560 time in Bozeman, and just it's specac It's everything that you see on TV 1012 01:13:15.000 --> 01:13:19.600 is and and now the lifestyle there is different, you know, it's just 1013 01:13:20.319 --> 01:13:26.399 slower. They're they're very comfortable with where they are. They don't want people 1014 01:13:26.439 --> 01:13:30.920 invading their space. Just a good luck with that. Yeah, yeah, 1015 01:13:31.119 --> 01:13:34.680 yeah, interesting. I was at UH. I like, I like hitting 1016 01:13:34.720 --> 01:13:40.560 some breweries when I'm on the road. When the craft brewery things started, 1017 01:13:41.279 --> 01:13:45.760 the pubs in Montana didn't particularly like that idea. So if you go to 1018 01:13:45.800 --> 01:13:50.439 a brewery, you get a card when you buy your first beer, and 1019 01:13:50.560 --> 01:13:56.439 there's three to a card and that's all you're allowed to have, and once 1020 01:13:56.479 --> 01:14:00.159 your card's finished, then you're done. Really yeah, so they cut you 1021 01:14:00.199 --> 01:14:04.119 off pretty quick in Montana's right in a brewery, Listen, I hate to 1022 01:14:04.199 --> 01:14:08.359 cut us off because this has been great. It's been better than I thought 1023 01:14:08.399 --> 01:14:10.920 it would be. And we never met before, No, we haven't. 1024 01:14:11.000 --> 01:14:15.359 And just talking to you about your travels is all fifty states, all fifty 1025 01:14:16.000 --> 01:14:19.399 and maybe another time we'll get to the rest of them. Rick Whitty, 1026 01:14:19.479 --> 01:14:23.520 thank you so much for your time. Thanksgary. On the Memorial Day night, 1027 01:14:23.880 --> 01:14:27.800 It's the Night Camp, the Great American Road Trip rolls on with a 1028 01:14:27.840 --> 01:14:33.119 few more stories about our travels on this holiday is Summer kicks off on seven 1029 01:14:33.199 --> 01:14:39.359 hundred WLW. In this edition of the Marketers Report, Angela Sapada, chief 1030 01:14:39.399 --> 01:14:45.000 marketing Officer of Hyundai Motor America, discusses measure It's our road trip. Party 1031 01:14:45.039 --> 01:14:49.720 on the Night Camp, The Great American Road Trip continues with more stories of 1032 01:14:49.840 --> 01:14:57.319 famous travels and maybe not so famous travels and maybe some infamous travels. Gerry 1033 01:14:57.359 --> 01:15:02.439 Jim Walker with you on this Memorial Day night on seven hundred WLW. And 1034 01:15:02.560 --> 01:15:08.399 our next tripper is our own Scott Sloan nine am to noon here on seven 1035 01:15:08.479 --> 01:15:11.920 hundred WLW. Winnie's not on the road or doing something else, Yeah, 1036 01:15:12.000 --> 01:15:15.319 yeah, and I ask you here's Scott, because tonight we're doing the Great 1037 01:15:15.359 --> 01:15:20.000 American road trip on the Nightcap on Memorial Day night. As summer hits and 1038 01:15:20.079 --> 01:15:24.800 people are hitting the road no matter what the gas prices are, they still 1039 01:15:24.920 --> 01:15:29.439 go out. During COVID, my wife and I called it asphalt therapy because 1040 01:15:29.439 --> 01:15:31.960 when everything was a look at downas drive, when everything was closed down, 1041 01:15:32.000 --> 01:15:35.720 we just got I said let's go and we'd find someplace that was open out 1042 01:15:35.760 --> 01:15:42.479 in the hallers and it was some of the best time that we spent during 1043 01:15:42.520 --> 01:15:46.279 that particular time in this country was being out on the road and just exploring. 1044 01:15:46.520 --> 01:15:49.960 I will say, no, there's no good road trip with kids. 1045 01:15:50.279 --> 01:15:55.119 A road trips comment by yourself or the significant other or someone you want to 1046 01:15:55.159 --> 01:15:59.560 be significant or buddies or brothers or sisters, whatever. When there's kids involved, 1047 01:15:59.600 --> 01:16:01.279 that is that's chaos, is what that is. That is not a 1048 01:16:01.359 --> 01:16:03.840 road trip. Can you have a good road trip? Can you have a 1049 01:16:03.920 --> 01:16:08.800 road trip with kids? I say no, my parents usually vacation is different 1050 01:16:08.840 --> 01:16:11.880 than a road trop Yeah, my parents used to take us on road trips, 1051 01:16:11.880 --> 01:16:15.239 but they were also business trips because my dad was a traveling salesman. 1052 01:16:15.479 --> 01:16:17.399 Sure we'd be going, well, we're gonna go to grandma's kids, getting 1053 01:16:17.479 --> 01:16:21.560 the station wagon and we'd get in the station wagon and all the way up 1054 01:16:21.560 --> 01:16:26.520 he'd be making stops calling on businesses. God, yeah, yeah, all 1055 01:16:26.560 --> 01:16:29.359 the way to Iowa. Last family trip, I think we went to Destin 1056 01:16:29.439 --> 01:16:32.640 and it was miserable that the whole trip there is just no one wanted to 1057 01:16:32.640 --> 01:16:38.520 go because of that and that age where they're just ungrateful little a holes and 1058 01:16:38.720 --> 01:16:40.640 all kids are like that. I don't care how good your kid is. 1059 01:16:40.720 --> 01:16:43.479 My kids and honors do and your kids an ale at a certain age. 1060 01:16:43.560 --> 01:16:45.880 And I had two of them, and like that's it as the last family 1061 01:16:45.960 --> 01:16:47.920 vacation. We're done. Now. Now it's road trips. If you're taking 1062 01:16:47.960 --> 01:16:51.680 a road trip and meeting the family somewhere or the kids maybe different thing. 1063 01:16:51.760 --> 01:16:54.960 Yeah, yeah, kids are older, maybe they live in a different city, 1064 01:16:55.000 --> 01:16:57.880 whatever it is. That's fine because I had a great road trip by 1065 01:16:57.920 --> 01:17:00.880 myself. Again, the trip was by myself. Yeah, from here to 1066 01:17:00.920 --> 01:17:04.239 Gallinburg to meet my parents and my brothers at a chilet that they'd rented at 1067 01:17:04.279 --> 01:17:09.439 the top of Wiley Oakley Mountain Road. They're overlooking the Smoky Mountain National Force. 1068 01:17:09.560 --> 01:17:12.520 That was a fantastic trip. But I drove there and I drove back 1069 01:17:12.720 --> 01:17:15.039 by myself. Yeah, and there is something to be said for that, 1070 01:17:15.520 --> 01:17:18.760 even without aussolutely. You know, it's great. You get on a maybe 1071 01:17:19.000 --> 01:17:21.520 a ride. Maybe you got a motorcycle, right, get on your motorcycle, 1072 01:17:21.920 --> 01:17:25.399 you drive out, you stop, but you know, get the dust 1073 01:17:25.399 --> 01:17:28.199 out of your throat, have some lunch or maybe a glass of whatever, 1074 01:17:28.319 --> 01:17:30.239 probably a pop these days. And you do that, you meet someone it's 1075 01:17:30.239 --> 01:17:32.039 like, what are you doing. I'm just roads, I'm just driving my 1076 01:17:32.079 --> 01:17:35.119 thing. She gets on the back of here your motorcycle. You drive next 1077 01:17:35.119 --> 01:17:38.239 thing. You know, it's Bob Seeger song. Well, I got a 1078 01:17:38.239 --> 01:17:41.640 full cooler with ice down. I just keep a blanket over it in case 1079 01:17:41.640 --> 01:17:45.039 I gain stuff. You never know, I never know. So do you 1080 01:17:45.119 --> 01:17:47.439 have a memorable road trip you wanted to recount? I never leave. I 1081 01:17:47.560 --> 01:17:49.720 just I don't do anything but work, so I don't. But no, 1082 01:17:49.800 --> 01:17:53.560 i'd have to go back in time. And this is I was living in 1083 01:17:53.640 --> 01:17:58.479 Milwaukee at the time, and this is a long time ago. And it 1084 01:17:58.520 --> 01:18:00.600 was great because it was just me. I think Michelle was still working somewhere 1085 01:18:00.680 --> 01:18:05.760 and I had had to drive down to Tennessee and I went by myself. 1086 01:18:05.920 --> 01:18:11.600 It was absolutely fantastic. Was like I could, I could drive as long 1087 01:18:11.640 --> 01:18:14.880 there as little as I wanted to. I really is on no timeline. 1088 01:18:15.039 --> 01:18:18.439 I remember stopping a couple of places, meeting some interesting people, then decide, 1089 01:18:18.439 --> 01:18:20.920 okay, alban to stay there like at a hotel that night. And 1090 01:18:21.880 --> 01:18:25.399 it was it was probably four or five days, and it was just it 1091 01:18:25.399 --> 01:18:29.279 was absolutely magnificent because you almost felt like you were tired, like I didn't 1092 01:18:29.319 --> 01:18:31.960 really have any responsibilities that all week could kill Sure. Did you go all 1093 01:18:31.960 --> 01:18:34.479 interstate or did you get off on the side right? I saw some side 1094 01:18:34.560 --> 01:18:38.920 roads too. I love that too the best. This is a family trip 1095 01:18:38.920 --> 01:18:42.279 of all things, going to the outer Banks. We got off the highway 1096 01:18:42.439 --> 01:18:45.600 in Virginia somewhere and just took like a state route. It was great because 1097 01:18:45.640 --> 01:18:49.079 I never had had like fresh peanuts before, because you get peanuts. I'm 1098 01:18:49.119 --> 01:18:53.960 telling you, if you haven't gotten fresh peanuts in Virginia at a roadside stand, 1099 01:18:54.399 --> 01:18:59.640 you are missing out on an essential thing. Totally different life, totally 1100 01:18:59.680 --> 01:19:01.960 different than that canister of planets. Right, it's like, oh my god, 1101 01:19:02.039 --> 01:19:05.479 these are amazing. We bought like three hundred dollars of the peanuts that 1102 01:19:05.560 --> 01:19:08.800 day because it was a good but you know what I mean, as you 1103 01:19:08.840 --> 01:19:12.159 see those roadside stops and you stop and it's just and there's something to be 1104 01:19:12.199 --> 01:19:14.560 said about the you know, if you're older, older that you know, 1105 01:19:14.640 --> 01:19:17.640 like around sixty six and making those drives, and you know, you lose 1106 01:19:17.680 --> 01:19:20.720 a lot with the interstate highway system. They're faster, but you kind of 1107 01:19:20.720 --> 01:19:26.319 miss the vibrancy of what makes America and communities and neighborhoods unique. Now we 1108 01:19:26.399 --> 01:19:30.720 do that. I think that one of my favorite road trips with my wife 1109 01:19:31.600 --> 01:19:36.079 was not too long after we'd gotten back together, and we were going to 1110 01:19:36.119 --> 01:19:40.800 go see my parents who live outside of Nashville, Tennessee, and we decided 1111 01:19:40.840 --> 01:19:45.560 that we were going to totally avoid the interstates all together. No sixty five, 1112 01:19:46.119 --> 01:19:50.560 no, not even the Bluegrass Parkway. We got off, went down 1113 01:19:50.600 --> 01:19:56.600 twenty seven from from Kentucky, went down twenty seven, and we stayed off 1114 01:19:56.640 --> 01:19:59.920 the interstate the entire time. And the one of the best parts of the 1115 01:20:00.079 --> 01:20:04.479 trip literally was where I took a wrong turn in some little berg and was 1116 01:20:04.600 --> 01:20:09.880 totally and the highway that I thought I was supposed to be on turns into 1117 01:20:09.960 --> 01:20:14.199 a one lane road and then it's a gravel road and I haven't turned off 1118 01:20:14.199 --> 01:20:18.079 of it. And we get to this place where there's a trailer up on 1119 01:20:18.119 --> 01:20:24.640 the left hand side and a guy sitting out in a lawn chair on his 1120 01:20:24.720 --> 01:20:29.800 porch of the trailer, and a dog was barking vociferously at us as I 1121 01:20:29.880 --> 01:20:32.800 first bark there as I as I get out of the car, and kind 1122 01:20:32.800 --> 01:20:35.720 of I'm at the edge of the driveway and christ is going to be careful, 1123 01:20:35.880 --> 01:20:39.279 God, they might shoot you out here. We don't know anybody they 1124 01:20:39.359 --> 01:20:44.680 do. Now we're just getting making a wrong turn somewhere. So his wife 1125 01:20:44.840 --> 01:20:46.199 just as I get out of the car and the dog is barking. The 1126 01:20:46.239 --> 01:20:49.920 guy sitting there and he looks like a friendly guy. The wife comes out 1127 01:20:49.960 --> 01:20:54.279 of the car and it's like, how is it. She was like she 1128 01:20:54.479 --> 01:20:59.319 was the one that I was worried about. It's like, Hey, no 1129 01:20:59.359 --> 01:21:02.159 big deal. And he just looked at her and waved his hand like get 1130 01:21:02.199 --> 01:21:05.960 back in the house. I got this right, and he came down the 1131 01:21:06.039 --> 01:21:11.680 driveway, was a really amiable guy and gave us instructions on how to to 1132 01:21:11.720 --> 01:21:15.600 get back back to where you are. Right. So that's a neat road 1133 01:21:15.600 --> 01:21:17.840 trip, but so for you. It was Milwaukee to Tennessee. Yeah, 1134 01:21:17.880 --> 01:21:20.199 to Tennessee, And I have no idea why I was going there, but 1135 01:21:21.319 --> 01:21:24.800 I can't. I can't remember it. I just remember it being so yeah. 1136 01:21:24.920 --> 01:21:26.920 I just remember it being very like, wow, I had to do 1137 01:21:26.960 --> 01:21:29.239 this more. And of course, you know, that was thirty years ago 1138 01:21:29.800 --> 01:21:31.680 and haven't done it since. I would love. I think that's a cool 1139 01:21:31.720 --> 01:21:33.720 thing to do, is just go, you know what, I'm gonna go 1140 01:21:33.760 --> 01:21:38.000 on vacation. I had no gol, I'm gonna play I don't know, 1141 01:21:38.000 --> 01:21:41.560 spin the bottle and whatever direction of point that's the way I'm heading. Wouldn't 1142 01:21:41.600 --> 01:21:45.159 be cool and just drive back roads, get out of an old school map 1143 01:21:45.199 --> 01:21:48.520 and just put on whatever and something along those lines. But although I will 1144 01:21:48.560 --> 01:21:53.439 say one of the last road trips I took this was last year. My 1145 01:21:53.520 --> 01:21:56.479 brothers and I went up to see because I grew up in Western New York, 1146 01:21:56.560 --> 01:21:59.760 went to see a Bills game. And we're driving up and like, 1147 01:21:59.760 --> 01:22:02.760 okay, okay. My brother, my middle brother, his wife just got 1148 01:22:02.760 --> 01:22:05.079 a new SUV and kind of luxury. One was like, okay, this 1149 01:22:05.159 --> 01:22:09.279 is great, A little used to whatever began, And so we're driving up. 1150 01:22:09.279 --> 01:22:11.239 I thinks fine, we're driving back, well, just come back Sunday 1151 01:22:11.279 --> 01:22:14.720 night. I got to work the next day. Whatever fatal mistake. So 1152 01:22:14.760 --> 01:22:17.640 we're driving back and it's on the P I think, right where the PA 1153 01:22:17.800 --> 01:22:21.159 line is and PA that stretch is the worst highway in America. It's alway 1154 01:22:21.199 --> 01:22:24.800 under construction, and we know it. There's like some debris on the road 1155 01:22:24.800 --> 01:22:26.920 to crap all over, like, okay, I don't know what. Something 1156 01:22:26.960 --> 01:22:30.920 happened. All of a sudden boom, we hit a It was like a 1157 01:22:30.960 --> 01:22:33.880 hunk of boar. Somebody was doing demolition work, look like drywall or something, 1158 01:22:34.279 --> 01:22:38.640 and they kept losing it all over the road and it got caught in 1159 01:22:38.680 --> 01:22:41.920 the undercarriage and jammed. I don't even know what the part is, and 1160 01:22:41.920 --> 01:22:45.119 I'm fairly mechanical, so I should know this. But the way it caught 1161 01:22:45.159 --> 01:22:47.319 and caught in the breaking system in the line is like we needed a part 1162 01:22:47.359 --> 01:22:53.239 and a tire. And it's it's now seven thirty eight o'clock on a Sunday 1163 01:22:53.279 --> 01:22:56.680 night in rural Pennsylvania. I think I got called into work for you. 1164 01:22:56.720 --> 01:22:59.960 Did you a's a no go? So we're looking I'm looking at going. 1165 01:23:00.039 --> 01:23:02.079 This isn't good right now? And so well, there's a dealership, but 1166 01:23:02.119 --> 01:23:05.680 it'd have to go to outside of Cleveland, which is about forty five minutes 1167 01:23:05.680 --> 01:23:08.399 away, and there's nothing we can do right now. So we had to 1168 01:23:08.399 --> 01:23:12.520 stay in this crappy one room hotel that I think I still have bed butt 1169 01:23:12.560 --> 01:23:15.840 bites, and we got a six pack of beer and passed out trying to 1170 01:23:15.880 --> 01:23:18.319 fight over a double bed and there's three of us, and it was just 1171 01:23:18.439 --> 01:23:23.399 it was absurdity after absurdly. Like then I had to call Scott Ryan Hard 1172 01:23:23.439 --> 01:23:24.800 and go, dude, I me and He's like, oh, yeah, 1173 01:23:24.840 --> 01:23:27.239 okay, you tear your car blew out. And then I got back and 1174 01:23:27.239 --> 01:23:29.079 I was like, why do you just say? Why didn't you just take 1175 01:23:29.079 --> 01:23:30.319 the day off? Why do you have to lie? I'm like, I'm 1176 01:23:30.359 --> 01:23:34.399 showing you the invoice because now my brother's wife is pissed because it's her new 1177 01:23:34.439 --> 01:23:39.960 truck and it needs two thousand dollars or the work on it because some clown 1178 01:23:40.000 --> 01:23:42.880 and then the troopers actually got the guy because I guess there are like five 1179 01:23:42.920 --> 01:23:45.880 cars that got blown up too, because these guys were not paying any attention. 1180 01:23:46.199 --> 01:23:49.119 It's great, sane, it's great to have a destination that you want 1181 01:23:49.119 --> 01:23:51.760 to go to, but it truly is about the journey. Yes, and 1182 01:23:53.159 --> 01:23:56.079 a great story all great road trips, right, you got a great story 1183 01:23:56.079 --> 01:24:00.359 out of it. Yeah, and I got an extra day of work pay. 1184 01:24:00.479 --> 01:24:02.520 It's all good. H Scott Slan. Thank you very much for being 1185 01:24:02.560 --> 01:24:06.800 on the road with us tonight. Happy Memorial Day. We'll we'll see you 1186 01:24:06.800 --> 01:24:11.680 around the house. Cheer's buddy or on the road. Seven hundred w l 1187 01:24:11.800 --> 01:24:19.680 w our next stop. Who knows? One eat seven seven Cars for Kids 1188 01:24:20.199 --> 01:24:28.720 ka rs cars were one eat seven seven Cars for Kids. Donate your car 1189 01:24:28.880 --> 01:24:31.199 today. Donate today at Cars for Kids dot org. Your car, running 1190 01:24:31.279 --> 01:24:33.720 or not, could be picked up as soon as the next day. No 1191 01:24:33.880 --> 01:24:38.960 title, no problem. Go to Cars for Kids dot org today seven seven 1192 01:24:39.039 --> 01:24:44.359 Cars for Kids. Donate your cards now accepting donations of land, homes, 1193 01:24:44.439 --> 01:24:47.159 buildings, or any kind of real estate. Get a great deal on Koboda 1194 01:24:47.319 --> 01:25:00.600 M series utility tractors. Our Versati utility tractors are tract Sagon the Great American 1195 01:25:00.720 --> 01:25:08.359 Road Trip on Memorial Day night, as we continue to look for America and 1196 01:25:08.439 --> 01:25:13.840 get ready to either thumb it or wheel it around the greatest country on the 1197 01:25:13.880 --> 01:25:18.319 face of the Earth. Carry Jeff Walker with you on this special Nightcap edition, 1198 01:25:19.239 --> 01:25:26.359 and we continue with another travelogue story on seven hundred WLW. We continue 1199 01:25:26.399 --> 01:25:30.640 our discussion on this special Nightcap the Great American road Trip with my friend Rick 1200 01:25:30.720 --> 01:25:34.720 Pasqually. Now you may not know Rick Pisqually, but you may think that 1201 01:25:34.760 --> 01:25:39.600 you've had pizza from his shop before, and you would be wrong because this 1202 01:25:39.680 --> 01:25:43.840 Pisqually has nothing to do with Pisqually's pizza. But they are friends of mine, 1203 01:25:43.880 --> 01:25:46.880 the Pisqually brothers. They're twins Rick and Ron and their younger brother Paul 1204 01:25:46.960 --> 01:25:51.359 Pisqually, who often and did again this year, go on their Great American 1205 01:25:51.439 --> 01:25:57.239 road trip to the state of Florida like many of us do. But Rick 1206 01:25:57.319 --> 01:26:03.600 has a different kind of road trip story that changed his life and he commemorates 1207 01:26:03.600 --> 01:26:09.319 it every year. And here to tell us more about that is the one 1208 01:26:09.399 --> 01:26:14.039 the only Rick Bisqually. How you doing, Rick, Good, Jeff Gary, 1209 01:26:14.119 --> 01:26:18.399 Jeff Good Good. Okay, So tell me about this infamous Florida road 1210 01:26:18.439 --> 01:26:21.600 trip. You and your brothers go on a golfing trip every year. And 1211 01:26:21.640 --> 01:26:26.039 I don't know how much golfing you do, how much beer drinking you do, 1212 01:26:26.479 --> 01:26:29.000 or how much fishing you do. But you go on this golf trip 1213 01:26:29.039 --> 01:26:32.279 every year. Where is it in Florida that you go? Rick, We 1214 01:26:32.359 --> 01:26:38.159 go to the villages if anybody's ever heard of that, that's where seeing that's 1215 01:26:38.159 --> 01:26:42.079 where senior citizens go to catch venereal diseases. I believe, got it. 1216 01:26:42.960 --> 01:26:45.439 Yeah, they're right on the money when whatever you hear about it, it's 1217 01:26:45.479 --> 01:26:50.000 true. No, it's a pretty wild place. And and but you have 1218 01:26:50.079 --> 01:26:55.399 a place specifically, you've got people's houses that you go there, right on 1219 01:26:55.439 --> 01:26:59.520 the water and near golf courses in the likes. So you're on this trip, 1220 01:26:59.760 --> 01:27:03.640 Mark eleventh, twenty eleven. And what happened. What happened on the 1221 01:27:03.680 --> 01:27:09.720 trip? Well, I was with another uh my my son was playing baseball 1222 01:27:09.800 --> 01:27:15.000 for a local college and uh they always go to to Florida in the spring 1223 01:27:15.000 --> 01:27:18.520 to play their first week of baseball. Okay, and uh, you know, 1224 01:27:18.560 --> 01:27:24.560 and one of my best friends from where I worked retired and in him 1225 01:27:24.600 --> 01:27:28.880 and his wife she had some health issues, so they went to Florida and 1226 01:27:29.039 --> 01:27:32.680 uh bought a place in the villages. So I would always stop and see 1227 01:27:32.720 --> 01:27:39.239 him and then go on to uh Port Charlotte or something, you know, 1228 01:27:39.520 --> 01:27:44.199 someplace down in Florida where they were playing baseball. But anyway, uh, 1229 01:27:44.560 --> 01:27:47.399 you know, we me and another baseball dad, we stopped and we see 1230 01:27:47.720 --> 01:27:53.439 my buddy and uh his name was Touts. What a name. But anyway, 1231 01:27:53.600 --> 01:27:57.399 uh you know, Uh, We're riding around on a golf coury. 1232 01:27:57.479 --> 01:28:00.560 It's a four seater. I'm sitting on the back. It's about five thirty, 1233 01:28:01.199 --> 01:28:06.079 like a Wednesday afternoon, and uh, I'm not paying any attention. 1234 01:28:06.359 --> 01:28:09.800 And these golf carts, if you've ever been to the village, as they 1235 01:28:09.840 --> 01:28:14.640 go ridiculous fast. Uh right, like twenty twenty two miles an hour, 1236 01:28:14.680 --> 01:28:16.840 which is fast than a golf car. I'm sitting on the back and they 1237 01:28:16.880 --> 01:28:20.199 made a couple of turns. I wasn't paying attention and I slid off the 1238 01:28:20.279 --> 01:28:26.439 side of the golf cart and hit my head on the curb. O got 1239 01:28:26.760 --> 01:28:30.560 got Uh it was it was bad, you know. So uh the air 1240 01:28:30.600 --> 01:28:39.199 carried me to Orlando Regional Medical Center and uh I was there for a couple 1241 01:28:39.279 --> 01:28:44.359 of months. I was in a coma for thirty eight days. Wow and 1242 01:28:44.359 --> 01:28:47.640 and and yeah, and uh, well I missed everything. Everybody was saying. 1243 01:28:47.640 --> 01:28:51.000 I was catching up on my sleep because I wasn't much of a sleeper. 1244 01:28:53.000 --> 01:28:56.199 But anyway, Uh, my brother, I have a twin brother, 1245 01:28:56.279 --> 01:29:00.359 Ron, and uh he was down there and my wife Lori. They were 1246 01:29:00.399 --> 01:29:04.880 down there the entire time I was in the hospital. Anyway, some of 1247 01:29:04.920 --> 01:29:10.960 the nurses, I, my my wife and brother got to know. I 1248 01:29:11.000 --> 01:29:14.960 didn't know anybody because I was sleeping. You were in a coma. I 1249 01:29:15.039 --> 01:29:19.560 was in a coma. And and eventually when I came out of it, 1250 01:29:20.319 --> 01:29:26.680 you know, I found out how much everybody was doing for me. I 1251 01:29:26.720 --> 01:29:30.079 didn't know what was going on, but behind the scenes, my brother and 1252 01:29:30.079 --> 01:29:34.000 my wife told me about, you know, some of the people that were 1253 01:29:34.039 --> 01:29:40.720 taking care of me. So every year after my one year anniversary, I 1254 01:29:40.760 --> 01:29:44.119 came home to Cincinnati. I was in and then they put me in Drake 1255 01:29:44.159 --> 01:29:47.640 Hospital. I flew on a med jet put me uh in Drake Hospital. 1256 01:29:47.680 --> 01:29:50.000 And that's where I learned how to do everything all over again. I had 1257 01:29:50.000 --> 01:29:53.640 to learn how to walk, I had to learn how to you know, 1258 01:29:54.439 --> 01:29:59.079 brush my teeth. I mean I had to you know, everything all over 1259 01:29:59.159 --> 01:30:01.960 again. You had to regain all your motor skills. Yep, didn't have 1260 01:30:02.000 --> 01:30:06.560 any motor skills. So uh, eventually it came back and and uh, 1261 01:30:08.279 --> 01:30:11.159 you know, so I I told my brother, I said, I'd like 1262 01:30:11.199 --> 01:30:14.800 to go to Florida and see the people that took care of me and were 1263 01:30:14.840 --> 01:30:20.079 instrumental in saving my life because I was on life support for two and a 1264 01:30:20.119 --> 01:30:23.920 half weeks. And wow, you know there was there was a lot of 1265 01:30:24.039 --> 01:30:29.439 a lot of problems and uh eventually came back around. But uh one of 1266 01:30:29.439 --> 01:30:34.239 the nurses was named Alan Tucco and uh Lisa Frey and and uh anyway, 1267 01:30:34.680 --> 01:30:42.199 we keep in touch. Alan and my brother and I started playing golf one 1268 01:30:42.239 --> 01:30:46.199 year anniversary. I went down there on my one year anniversary. Uh and 1269 01:30:46.199 --> 01:30:50.319 and uh he couldn't believe it, you know, because he as a as 1270 01:30:50.359 --> 01:30:54.920 a nurse. He would you know, uh he would say, well, 1271 01:30:55.000 --> 01:30:58.720 gee whiz. Uh you know, he was kind of looked at me like 1272 01:30:58.760 --> 01:31:00.920 I was casper to ghost. He didn't. He was like a shocked that 1273 01:31:01.000 --> 01:31:04.520 I was walking and talking and could play golf, and uh, you know, 1274 01:31:04.560 --> 01:31:10.439 everything was coming back. And uh, you know, so Alan and 1275 01:31:10.479 --> 01:31:15.359 I we keep in touch and and uh but every year, every year, 1276 01:31:15.399 --> 01:31:20.000 you guys make this road trip back in the year and you again touch bases 1277 01:31:20.039 --> 01:31:25.760 with this nurse who helped you and you didn't even know what was going on 1278 01:31:26.079 --> 01:31:30.960 and helped bring you back to life. Literally. So a road trip where 1279 01:31:31.199 --> 01:31:38.760 something horrible happens turns into another lifelong friendship for you. And that's the kind 1280 01:31:38.800 --> 01:31:43.079 of thing that I'm trying to get at tonight is that certain road trips can 1281 01:31:43.119 --> 01:31:47.079 be really truly life changing. And this one was for you and it continues 1282 01:31:47.119 --> 01:31:50.720 to this day, which I think is so cool. Yeah, we keep 1283 01:31:50.880 --> 01:31:55.520 h you know, we've been to each other. He's been a lot. 1284 01:31:55.520 --> 01:31:58.640 I've gone to his house. My brother and I have gone to his house. 1285 01:31:58.680 --> 01:32:02.840 We've eaten Midus house, We've met his son. He's he knows my 1286 01:32:03.039 --> 01:32:08.760 family. You know. It's uh and we do uh you know, like 1287 01:32:08.840 --> 01:32:13.640 the PGA last week. Yeah, we Uh there's like a group of us 1288 01:32:13.680 --> 01:32:16.079 guys and he's in on it. Uh. We picked four golfers and we 1289 01:32:16.159 --> 01:32:20.399 see you know, we keep track of uh. We text each other who's 1290 01:32:20.560 --> 01:32:25.119 got the lead, and so you know, he's uh, he's part of 1291 01:32:25.159 --> 01:32:27.319 our life. Well you know what's part of my life. I want to 1292 01:32:27.359 --> 01:32:31.319 say as we end uh the day trip, that I like to make road 1293 01:32:31.359 --> 01:32:35.600 trip on this Memorial Day weekend and hopefully for the fourth of July. We'll 1294 01:32:35.600 --> 01:32:43.239 see what happens. Is going to Rick and Ron's trailer river Camp in Patriot, 1295 01:32:43.319 --> 01:32:47.199 Indiana, because the last last year or the year before, I got 1296 01:32:47.279 --> 01:32:50.640 to ride in the Fourth of July Parade in a golf cart and I stayed 1297 01:32:50.720 --> 01:32:55.840 in the golf cart oddly enough and didn't slide off. So I'm looking forward 1298 01:32:55.840 --> 01:32:59.079 to that soon. Man. Listen, thanks for spending a few minutes with 1299 01:32:59.159 --> 01:33:01.560 us tonight. It is a good time and I'm glad Jeff, I'm glad 1300 01:33:01.560 --> 01:33:04.800 you recovered. Jez Well, thank you, and uh, you know, 1301 01:33:05.239 --> 01:33:09.279 you know, it's one of those things just uh, it's an amazing thing. 1302 01:33:09.399 --> 01:33:12.840 Hey, you know what everybody did eat, you know, behind the 1303 01:33:12.880 --> 01:33:17.520 scenes for me and the family. Uh is uh life changing, no doubt. 1304 01:33:17.680 --> 01:33:21.920 Never forget about it. Rick Bisqually on The Great American Road Trip Show. 1305 01:33:23.640 --> 01:33:53.680 It continues on seven hundred w L that's right, living in America on 1306 01:33:53.760 --> 01:33:59.359 a Memorial Day night, Harry Jeff Walker on the nightcap The Great American Road 1307 01:33:59.399 --> 01:34:09.760 Trips Show more tales of your travels on seven hundred WLW. As we continue 1308 01:34:09.840 --> 01:34:15.000 tripping on this Memorial Day night, The Great American Road Trip continues, and 1309 01:34:15.439 --> 01:34:19.119 first off, some personal road trips, and number one on the list is 1310 01:34:19.960 --> 01:34:25.880 a road trip I will never forget that I took with my three brothers. 1311 01:34:26.359 --> 01:34:30.159 I'm the oldest, and I have the youngest on the phone, who was 1312 01:34:30.199 --> 01:34:36.119 somehow called door key at some point because I guess he had the door key 1313 01:34:36.159 --> 01:34:41.720 of the car. I'm not sure why that came about. But my brother, 1314 01:34:42.319 --> 01:34:45.720 my baby brother, Chuck, is on the line tonight here on seven 1315 01:34:45.800 --> 01:34:50.079 hundred WLW and sounds like you're on a road trip yourself right now. Yeah, 1316 01:34:50.119 --> 01:34:55.239 I'm just heading down to Stupor from Paul City, so it's not too 1317 01:34:55.239 --> 01:34:58.880 far. Yes, this is my brother who decided to with his wife sell 1318 01:34:58.920 --> 01:35:01.640 their house and live on a boat, and they are doing that. And 1319 01:35:02.079 --> 01:35:08.000 so you know what, God, that sounds like a great trip every day 1320 01:35:08.359 --> 01:35:12.600 if you got a lot of money to spend. So anyway, Chuck, 1321 01:35:13.920 --> 01:35:16.880 let's let's go back. And I believe this was this had to be in 1322 01:35:17.000 --> 01:35:25.319 nineteen eighty seven or so when the three all four of us. Was it 1323 01:35:25.399 --> 01:35:29.319 eighty six? Yeah, I'm pretty sure with eighty six because I just got 1324 01:35:29.359 --> 01:35:34.399 my driver's flights. All right. So I'm in my mid twenties. I'm 1325 01:35:34.439 --> 01:35:39.319 twenty six Chuck has just turned sixteen, and the other two are in the 1326 01:35:39.319 --> 01:35:45.720 middle. And we went from our home in Middle Tennessee all the way up 1327 01:35:45.720 --> 01:35:49.079 to Mount Pleasant, Iowa. And it turned out it was a very poignant 1328 01:35:49.119 --> 01:35:53.760 trip, as it turned out, because it was the last time we would 1329 01:35:53.800 --> 01:36:00.000 see our grandma and grandpa alive. Grandma and Grandpa Anderson alive in Mount Pleasant. 1330 01:36:00.079 --> 01:36:02.479 And so let's talk a little bit about the trip. We definitely had 1331 01:36:02.520 --> 01:36:08.359 a mission mentality, Uh, drive a NonStop. What do you remember about 1332 01:36:08.359 --> 01:36:12.479 that particular road trip, my brother, Well, I remember it was one 1333 01:36:12.479 --> 01:36:15.520 of the first times I actually drove on the interstate and uh, you know, 1334 01:36:16.079 --> 01:36:19.840 of course, everybody we just kind of rotated that like you said that 1335 01:36:19.880 --> 01:36:24.359 way. The only time we stopped was for das we grab a bike at 1336 01:36:24.359 --> 01:36:30.319 the gas station or whatever or p Yeah, right, but yeah, there 1337 01:36:30.399 --> 01:36:36.520 was quite a bit of camaraderie going on, uh back and forth with each 1338 01:36:36.560 --> 01:36:41.319 other. And that's where the door key came into play. We decided to 1339 01:36:42.159 --> 01:36:45.279 one person was going to hold it a spare ignition and we're looking out here 1340 01:36:45.880 --> 01:36:51.239 called the spare door key, and I happened to be Dorgy, So you 1341 01:36:51.359 --> 01:36:57.319 were door key from that point forward on this and it was like a geez, 1342 01:36:57.399 --> 01:37:00.720 it was like what a seven or not? It was almost a nine 1343 01:37:00.760 --> 01:37:04.119 hour road trip, wasn't it? Or ten? They was like almost twelve. 1344 01:37:05.039 --> 01:37:09.279 Yeah, because we went from the Nashville area all the way up to 1345 01:37:09.479 --> 01:37:15.680 southeast Iowa to see Grandma and Grandpa. And again I remember meeting them at 1346 01:37:15.920 --> 01:37:20.560 at we took them back out to their house. They were both in assisted 1347 01:37:20.680 --> 01:37:27.079 facilities at that time. We went and picked them up and took them around 1348 01:37:27.119 --> 01:37:30.800 the yard. And the trip back, I mean, the whole trip to 1349 01:37:30.920 --> 01:37:35.439 me is something that I will never forget because it's one of the few times 1350 01:37:35.520 --> 01:37:45.039 that I remember where all four of us participated in something and got along right. 1351 01:37:46.479 --> 01:37:49.159 Yeah, there were some fights. That was one fights for sure. 1352 01:37:49.640 --> 01:37:54.279 I remember us stopping in Saint Louis on our way back, and we decided 1353 01:37:54.319 --> 01:37:58.640 to go to Jake's Steaks there on the waterfront. Man, in the fact 1354 01:37:58.680 --> 01:38:02.880 when you could actually walk around downtown, you when you could actually still walk 1355 01:38:02.960 --> 01:38:10.840 around downtown Saint Louis. Absolutely, but they had that ninety six ounce play 1356 01:38:11.000 --> 01:38:18.560 and John before and it was rapped with like three pounds of bacon. Well, 1357 01:38:18.640 --> 01:38:24.479 you remember more than I do. You don't remember the steak. I 1358 01:38:24.840 --> 01:38:27.359 kind of now that you bring it up. I do remember the steak. 1359 01:38:27.439 --> 01:38:30.880 I was probably about two or three Jack daniels in at that point. Yeah, 1360 01:38:32.319 --> 01:38:36.640 but when it cooked it perfect, I couldn't believe it. Biggest steak 1361 01:38:36.640 --> 01:38:40.479 out of a I've ever seen in my life. Well, yeah, how 1362 01:38:40.520 --> 01:38:43.880 do you have a ninety six ounce full A for God's sake? Uh? 1363 01:38:44.640 --> 01:38:48.000 Brother? Brother, thanks for the memories and continue your own personal road trip 1364 01:38:48.399 --> 01:38:55.640 and hope you have a good Memorial Day, sir. All right, yeah 1365 01:38:56.000 --> 01:39:00.600 you too, Love you too. It's my brother Chuck from from South Florida. 1366 01:39:01.479 --> 01:39:05.960 He lives there with his wife Kelly in Jupiter. It was just just 1367 01:39:06.119 --> 01:39:11.399 north of Jupiter, Florida, on their fifty three foot boat that they sold 1368 01:39:11.479 --> 01:39:15.279 everything and bought, which is another trip. It wasn't a road trip, 1369 01:39:15.479 --> 01:39:17.000 it was a fly trip that Krista and I talking. By the way, 1370 01:39:17.199 --> 01:39:20.920 I mentioned Krista two point zho. She is here in the studio tonight to 1371 01:39:21.000 --> 01:39:27.039 relate a couple of her road trips. In fact, in the about three 1372 01:39:27.159 --> 01:39:29.960 or four minutes we've got in this segment, Krista, how are you? 1373 01:39:30.439 --> 01:39:32.920 I'm sorry? What was that I said? I'm good. How are you 1374 01:39:33.359 --> 01:39:40.079 dummy? Hit the right button, Mike, I'm fantastic. So let's talk 1375 01:39:40.199 --> 01:39:47.439 about real quickly summarize the super Bowl road trip that you took alone. Oh. 1376 01:39:48.920 --> 01:39:57.880 I had to drive back from Tampa, Florida on Super Bowl Sunday, 1377 01:39:59.199 --> 01:40:05.319 right, and had to go through Atlanta. Nobody likes to go through Atlanta. 1378 01:40:05.640 --> 01:40:10.560 No, I mean whether even at the airport. Nobody likes to go 1379 01:40:10.680 --> 01:40:13.960 through Atlanta, which we've done. Yeah, but nobody wants to drive through 1380 01:40:14.039 --> 01:40:18.720 Atlanta anytime. So you decided that you were stopping for the night. You 1381 01:40:18.800 --> 01:40:23.960 weren't going any farther. No, you got out of Atlanta right, just 1382 01:40:24.319 --> 01:40:27.239 a little north of Atlanta. Yes, I can't remember the name of the 1383 01:40:27.319 --> 01:40:31.760 town. But and I got a hotel room and got to see the Super 1384 01:40:31.840 --> 01:40:38.239 Bowl and on the TV at the hotel room. Yeah. I'm sitting there 1385 01:40:38.279 --> 01:40:40.960 at home going, well, where is she? Oh? Oh that's right. 1386 01:40:41.239 --> 01:40:43.800 We talked and you said you weren't going to make it through and I 1387 01:40:43.880 --> 01:40:46.560 understood it was a long, long trip, right, And I didn't realize 1388 01:40:46.600 --> 01:40:53.560 how far I had driven in one setting, but it was like a twelve 1389 01:40:53.560 --> 01:40:59.399 hour drive. Yeah. So you're in Atlanta and you just wound up. 1390 01:40:59.680 --> 01:41:03.000 You had to go outside your hotel room to smoke. Yeah, so you 1391 01:41:03.159 --> 01:41:08.319 met some people who are also outside, and you want up having actually a 1392 01:41:08.359 --> 01:41:12.720 good time. Right. We kind of ended up having a little party super 1393 01:41:12.760 --> 01:41:17.159 Bowl party in then out watching the game outside smoking, drinking our beers, 1394 01:41:17.359 --> 01:41:23.600 and it was a fun. You probably had more fun than I did because 1395 01:41:23.600 --> 01:41:26.560 I didn't go anywhere. I just stayed at home and watched the game. 1396 01:41:27.560 --> 01:41:32.439 That's okay, more of our Great American road trips as we continue in just 1397 01:41:32.560 --> 01:41:38.479 a minute. Christa has another story she would like to relate, and well, 1398 01:41:38.640 --> 01:41:44.800 we've got one together. Specifically, that was right after we got back 1399 01:41:44.880 --> 01:41:48.399 together on the way to the parents' house from here down to Middle Tennessee. 1400 01:41:48.560 --> 01:41:56.079 That we'll explore as we hit the next As we hit the next exit, 1401 01:41:56.560 --> 01:42:00.439 it's the Great American road Trip on Memorial Day night, Gary J. Christ 1402 01:42:00.439 --> 01:42:04.239 to two point zero in this half hour and more ahead on seven hundred WLW. 1403 01:42:04.800 --> 01:42:09.600 Last season, millions tuned into the Betrayal Podcast to hear a shocking story 1404 01:42:09.680 --> 01:42:14.079 of deception. I'm Andrea Gunning and now we're sharing an all new story of 1405 01:42:14.159 --> 01:42:27.640 betrayal. Wherever home is, are you getting away? From Home. The 1406 01:42:27.760 --> 01:42:32.279 Great American Road Trip Night Camp Special continues on this Memorial Day night on seven 1407 01:42:32.399 --> 01:42:39.359 hundred WLW as summer dawns and we're all hitting the road at one time or 1408 01:42:39.399 --> 01:42:43.920 another, or most of us are Americans by the millions, get out on 1409 01:42:44.159 --> 01:42:48.239 the highway asphalt therapy is what I call it, to see the sites and 1410 01:42:48.520 --> 01:42:53.640 just enjoy the journey. And we're recounting some of our favorite road trips. 1411 01:42:53.760 --> 01:42:57.920 Gary Jeff Walker with Christa two point oh, my lovely wife in here for 1412 01:42:58.039 --> 01:43:00.279 this half hour. And first I will tell you about a road trip that 1413 01:43:00.439 --> 01:43:11.279 happened PK prior to Christa or BK before Christa. I was we're going to 1414 01:43:11.359 --> 01:43:16.399 the mid eighties range again about nineteen eighty eight or so. I was married 1415 01:43:16.720 --> 01:43:21.159 to someone else. I'm sorry, dear, I forgive you, thank you. 1416 01:43:21.840 --> 01:43:29.800 And so anyway, my wife at the time had booked a cruise that 1417 01:43:30.079 --> 01:43:34.760 was leaving out of Miami going to Caribbean. I could not, because of 1418 01:43:34.840 --> 01:43:39.760 work reasons, join her. So she had a friend of hers, a 1419 01:43:39.840 --> 01:43:45.159 girlfriend of hers, join her on this cruise and the deal was then I 1420 01:43:45.319 --> 01:43:49.560 would drive down when the cruise was over, like six days. It was 1421 01:43:49.640 --> 01:43:54.359 like a six to seven day cruise and I would drive down from Nashville to 1422 01:43:54.640 --> 01:44:00.239 Miami, which is not a short road trip whatsoever, and pick them both 1423 01:44:00.319 --> 01:44:03.760 up, and then we would drive back through the Strait of Florida for the 1424 01:44:03.920 --> 01:44:10.119 second week or my week of the vacation and come back home and just kind 1425 01:44:10.159 --> 01:44:13.760 of drive back and stop along the way and stay a couple of places. 1426 01:44:13.800 --> 01:44:17.920 I think we stayed in DestinE or something on the way back. Very nice, 1427 01:44:18.239 --> 01:44:23.520 very nice road trip. But what I will always remember about that particular 1428 01:44:23.640 --> 01:44:26.640 road trip, and this is the thing that Scott Sloane and I were talking 1429 01:44:26.640 --> 01:44:31.279 about earlier, when you take a road trip by yourself, and Krista was 1430 01:44:31.359 --> 01:44:34.479 just talking about a road trip back from Atlanta and she wound up not having 1431 01:44:34.520 --> 01:44:38.520 a bad time at all. When you take a road trip by yourself, 1432 01:44:39.159 --> 01:44:43.319 there is nobody else to account for. You can stop whenever you want to 1433 01:44:43.680 --> 01:44:47.079 for whatever reason you want to, and nobody's there to complain or to object 1434 01:44:47.800 --> 01:44:57.279 or there's no debate, and they're just there's a sense of freedom there that's 1435 01:44:57.439 --> 01:45:01.920 unique when you're out on the road by your Some people think it's scary some 1436 01:45:02.039 --> 01:45:05.560 people, but for me, at that point in my life. It was 1437 01:45:05.640 --> 01:45:11.319 a nice release, a nice way to start my vacation driving from Nashville to 1438 01:45:11.399 --> 01:45:15.720 Miami, and I had a place a stop in Jacksonville, Florida. So 1439 01:45:15.800 --> 01:45:21.239 I made it as far as Jacksonville, which of course in the northern top 1440 01:45:21.359 --> 01:45:28.800 of the state. It's still pretty good haul from Nashville to Jacksonville, and 1441 01:45:28.920 --> 01:45:32.800 again the driving through Atlanta part. But I had somewhere to stay, someone 1442 01:45:32.840 --> 01:45:36.800 I knew lived there. But the first thing I did when I got to 1443 01:45:36.960 --> 01:45:41.239 Jacksonville was head for the beach. Now, for those of you who are 1444 01:45:41.239 --> 01:45:45.439 not familiar with Jacksonville in area, it's one of the largest cities in America, 1445 01:45:45.560 --> 01:45:49.000 not population, but in the area it encompasses. I mean, they're 1446 01:45:49.079 --> 01:45:54.680 like, I don't know, fourteen to fifteen bridges that crossed the river in 1447 01:45:54.880 --> 01:45:58.840 Jacksonville to Jacksonville Beach. And I found one of those bridges. And the 1448 01:45:58.920 --> 01:46:02.119 first thing I wanted to do. It was about sunset, so at this 1449 01:46:02.279 --> 01:46:09.640 particular time, it's about seven thirty or so in the evening, and the 1450 01:46:09.720 --> 01:46:13.119 first thing I did was drive directly to the beach. I got out of 1451 01:46:13.119 --> 01:46:16.840 the car, took my shoes off, walked through the sand to the ocean 1452 01:46:17.640 --> 01:46:21.520 as the sun is going down, the moon is coming up. Dipped my 1453 01:46:21.640 --> 01:46:26.279 toes in the water, and lo and behold, just above me was a 1454 01:46:26.520 --> 01:46:30.239 dock pier restaurant that went out on a pier right into the ocean, and 1455 01:46:30.359 --> 01:46:33.199 I saw the neon lights and going, what is that? Oh, that's 1456 01:46:33.239 --> 01:46:39.359 a place to get a drink. And I had drink set sunset in this 1457 01:46:39.560 --> 01:46:45.640 dock pier by myself and met some people and had a great time and consumed 1458 01:46:45.680 --> 01:46:49.840 about a dozen oysters on the halfshell. Delicious, by the way, and 1459 01:46:50.039 --> 01:46:55.720 then continued my trip the next morning. But when I got to Miami, 1460 01:46:58.279 --> 01:47:02.079 it was about four o'clock in the morning. Got to Miami about four o'clock 1461 01:47:02.119 --> 01:47:06.359 in the morning. Now Miami's a major city, but still there's not a 1462 01:47:06.439 --> 01:47:10.920 lot of activity at four o'clock in the morning in downtown Miami. Because I 1463 01:47:11.000 --> 01:47:14.920 didn't quite know where the Port of Miami was. I pull into a seven 1464 01:47:14.960 --> 01:47:17.680 to eleven. It's the only thing open downtown Miami at four o'clock in the 1465 01:47:17.800 --> 01:47:24.640 morning, and I'm trying to get directions and there's no one there who speaks 1466 01:47:24.840 --> 01:47:29.920 English. The guy at the counter have no idea what his nationality was. 1467 01:47:30.199 --> 01:47:34.680 But he wasn't speaking my language. Nobody in the store. There are three 1468 01:47:34.800 --> 01:47:40.319 or four other people, none of them English speakers, and of course I'm 1469 01:47:40.399 --> 01:47:44.359 not multi lingual, so I'm trying to and you know, when you don't, 1470 01:47:45.920 --> 01:47:47.920 there's a language barrier, and you think that if you just say it's 1471 01:47:47.920 --> 01:47:53.279 slower and louder, they'll somehow understand what you're saying. That didn't work either, 1472 01:47:53.680 --> 01:47:58.039 And then a Haitian cab driver comes in who actually spoke some broken English 1473 01:47:58.359 --> 01:48:02.199 and got me. But I'm going port of Miami big boats with my arms 1474 01:48:02.239 --> 01:48:09.079 outstretched like they would understand that they didn't. Now, Christopher, this last 1475 01:48:09.159 --> 01:48:14.359 road trip story, this was when we first was the first summer we got 1476 01:48:14.399 --> 01:48:16.920 together. We were back together, first summer. Yes, wanted to go 1477 01:48:17.159 --> 01:48:21.760 see my mom and dad in the Nashville area, and I decided I had 1478 01:48:21.800 --> 01:48:26.000 the brilliant idea that we weren't going to take the interstate. There'll be no 1479 01:48:26.760 --> 01:48:30.079 Geen Snyder Parkway, There'll be no I sixty five, no I seventy one. 1480 01:48:30.359 --> 01:48:33.239 It was a great idea, it really really was. It was a 1481 01:48:33.319 --> 01:48:36.800 lot of fun. This was we packed the cooler, we head out on 1482 01:48:36.880 --> 01:48:45.800 the road, leaving Southgate, Kentucky down twenty seven. Yeah, and at 1483 01:48:45.880 --> 01:48:50.119 some point in the middle of the wilds of Kentucky. And it was beautiful 1484 01:48:50.159 --> 01:48:54.359 too. I remember, oh, yes, going on these side roads through 1485 01:48:54.359 --> 01:48:58.319 all these beautiful streams and mountains and hollers and stuff. And the leaves are 1486 01:48:58.359 --> 01:49:04.840 in full greenery. It's just wonderful flowers. Everything beautiful. I took a 1487 01:49:04.960 --> 01:49:10.960 wrong turn at some little podunk town in central Kentucky and we got lost. 1488 01:49:12.159 --> 01:49:18.640 Why did the uh the two lane road eventually turned into a one lane road 1489 01:49:18.960 --> 01:49:26.199 gravel, gravel, that's right, not paved. And finally just did this 1490 01:49:26.319 --> 01:49:29.680 is you know, didn't have GPS or anything. Nope, did not. 1491 01:49:29.880 --> 01:49:32.199 We actually had maps. How long ago this was? This is how old 1492 01:49:32.239 --> 01:49:40.600 we are. Uh So, anyway, there's a house trailer whatever on the 1493 01:49:40.760 --> 01:49:45.319 side that we can see from this gravel road through the trees, and there's 1494 01:49:45.359 --> 01:49:47.800 a guy sitting outside in his lawn chair and his dog is out there. 1495 01:49:48.399 --> 01:49:50.560 I said, well, let me just ask him. She said, be 1496 01:49:50.640 --> 01:49:56.279 careful, don't get shot. Hey, they carry shot guns. Yeah, 1497 01:49:56.640 --> 01:49:59.199 especially if you're out in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, you know, 1498 01:50:00.119 --> 01:50:05.279 justice is just us. So anyway, I pull up the driveway and the 1499 01:50:05.359 --> 01:50:11.319 dog is just going ballistic and the guy gets up and I'm kind of waving. 1500 01:50:11.720 --> 01:50:15.159 He kind of waves back. But then his wife came to the door 1501 01:50:15.359 --> 01:50:20.000 with the dog barking, and she stood there with hands on hips, just 1502 01:50:20.279 --> 01:50:26.159 glaring at screaming, who is it? Yes, And I thought, the 1503 01:50:26.359 --> 01:50:29.319 man's not going to shoot me, the dog's not going to attack me, 1504 01:50:29.640 --> 01:50:33.119 but the wife is going to kill us both. And oh the dog was 1505 01:50:33.199 --> 01:50:36.760 sweet. But anyway, he was nice, and he gave us directions and 1506 01:50:36.840 --> 01:50:43.039 we got back on a on a road where there was civilization. But the 1507 01:50:43.760 --> 01:50:46.880 four hour trip took us a total of how long eight and a half about 1508 01:50:46.920 --> 01:50:51.640 eight and a half hours. It's usually a four hour journey to Hendersonville, 1509 01:50:51.680 --> 01:50:56.119 Tennessee from here, but it was an eight and it was an all day 1510 01:50:56.279 --> 01:50:59.800 road trip, and it was fantastic. Again, one of those road trips 1511 01:50:59.840 --> 01:51:02.439 that will live in my memory as long as I live. I'd love to 1512 01:51:02.520 --> 01:51:06.039 do it again. And I think maybe we are due. We're more than 1513 01:51:06.119 --> 01:51:10.760 due. Yes, it's been about ten years. So I hope you have 1514 01:51:10.960 --> 01:51:15.560 had a fantastic holiday with family and friends. I hope you have taken time 1515 01:51:15.680 --> 01:51:19.560 to remember those who have given all in service to our country. That's what 1516 01:51:19.800 --> 01:51:25.760 this particular American holiday is all about. Truly. It also marks the start 1517 01:51:26.600 --> 01:51:31.840 of summer and summer travel season, and road trips abound everywhere. There is 1518 01:51:32.000 --> 01:51:35.760 so much to explore and so much to do, and if you get a 1519 01:51:35.920 --> 01:51:43.319 chance, get off the interstate, close down that mission mentality and just take 1520 01:51:43.399 --> 01:51:48.520 your time enjoy the journey. With that, we leave you with our star 1521 01:51:48.640 --> 01:51:55.800 spangled banner to honor America and all of the highways and byways and little one 1522 01:51:56.079 --> 01:52:00.520 lane gravel roads in the middle of Podunk, Kentucky. Here it is our 1523 01:52:00.600 --> 01:52:05.199 national anthem. As we close on seven hundred WLW