Our Griswold Vacation: Two Cars, Two Trips to Chicago, and One Very Long Road Home

Our most recent road trip began innocently enough: a family gathering in Dayton, Ohio. We have made the journey from Arkansas to Dayton more…

Stories from the road, and the places worth stopping for.

Fork in the Road Trip is my place to publish travel stories, photographs, recommendations, observations, and the occasional worthwhile detour.

This is less about checking destinations off a list and more about noticing what is along the way: the towns, people, history, meals, forgotten places, and unexpected moments that make a trip memorable.

I publish under a pen name, but the work is personal. In time, selected stories and material from this site will also feed into Real Roads and the Open Road Archive.

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