Gribblenation Roadcast

The Greater New Orleans area has seen its fair share of hurricanes over the years and its residents have ample stories to tell about their experiences with these storms over the years, with Hurricane Katrina still being top of mind for many who live in the area today. One of these residents is Jason Hoffman, creator of the "504RoadTrips" YouTube channel, who sat down with Dan in this epi...

Gribblenation's Doug talks about his visit to Ontario's Cottage Country that happened over Memorial Day Weekend in 2023.

The history of the roads, bridges, and waterways of southeastern Louisiana and the Greater New Orleans region is a fascinating topic that doesn't generally get a lot of air time within the roads/travel enthusiast community. In this three-part podcast series, Dan sat down with Jason Hoffman of the YouTube channel "504RoadTrips" for a lengthy conversation about southeastern Louisiana a...

The history of the roads, bridges, and waterways of southeastern Louisiana and the Greater New Orleans region is a fascinating topic that doesn't generally get a lot of air time within the roads/travel enthusiast community. In this three-part podcast series, Dan sat down with Jason Hoffman of the YouTube channel "504RoadTrips" for a lengthy conversation about southeastern Louisiana a...

The history of the roads, bridges, and waterways of southeastern Louisiana and the Greater New Orleans region is a fascinating topic that doesn't generally get a lot of air time within the roads/travel enthusiast community. In this three-part podcast series, Dan sat down with Jason Hoffman of the YouTube channel "504RoadTrips" for a lengthy conversation about southeastern Louisiana a...

Gribblenation's Doug talks about his recent trip to Michigan, along with some of the best things he's seen during other trips around the Great Lakes State. This episode was recorded in memory of late road enthusiasts Charles Kunz and David Backlin. They will be missed.

Gribblenation's Doug talks in brief about how food ties in with road trips we take and how that is part of the road trip experience.

Gribblenation's Doug talks in brief about traveling with his mother as we get close to Mother's Day.

David Corcoran is the webmaster of corcohighways.org and has been in the habit of documenting the state highway systems of the Mountain West states since 2007. In this Part 2 of a two-part conversation, Dan and "Corco" continued their discussion of the roads of Idaho and some of his favorite drives around the northern and eastern parts of the state. We also talked about Corco's belov...

David Corcoran is the webmaster of corcohighways.org and has been in the habit of documenting the state highway systems of the Mountain West states since 2007. In this Part 1 of a two-part conversation, Dan sat down with him to talk about roads of the state of Idaho, some of his favorite drives around the southwestern part of the state, and some of his experiences and memories from his days as a p...

The year 2023 marks 250 years since the founding of Harford County, Maryland, which is located in the northeastern part of the state between Baltimore and the Susquehanna River. The year-long "Harford 250" celebration is now underway countywide and joining me on this episode to talk more about the county's history and some of the upcoming events you can take part in is Laura Bianca-P...

Gribblenation's Doug discusses the historic covered bridges in the three southern New England states of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Find out a little bit about the history of these covered bridges from the era of Colonial America right up to UFO encounters.

A new baseball season is right around the corner and so let's mark the occasion on this latest Roadcast episode! Dan's guest on the show is Rob Adams, sports director at WGCH radio in Greenwich, CT, and a part-time public address announcer for the High-A minor league Hudson Valley Renegades baseball team in Fishkill, NY. Rob and Dan sat down to break down the MLB landscape division by divi...

In this episode (Part 2 of 2), Dan continues discussing his recent travels around the southern United States in the winter (January/February) of 2023. With 6 weeks to work  with, there was a lot of ground to cover and subsequently a lot of highlights to talk about! Dan was also joined by a special guest & friend of the podcast for this recap & discussion, which makes this episode wort...

In this episode (Part 1 of 2), Dan talks about his recent travels around the southern United States in the winter (January/February) of 2023. With 6 weeks to work  with, there was a lot of ground to cover and subsequently a lot of highlights to talk about! Dan was also joined by a special guest & friend of the podcast for this recap & discussion, which makes this episode worth a liste...

When the 1968 Federal-Aid Highway Bill was passed, 1500 new miles were added to the Interstate Highway System.  The Chair of the House Subcommittee on Roads, John Kluczynski, asked each state's highway department to send him their list of desired additions to the system.  The states' responses of course varied, but they do paint a picture into how the Interstate Highway System got to whe...

Gribblenation's Doug talks a little bit about Arizona, as well as muses about ideas for future podcast episodes.

Gribblenation's Doug talks about driving across US 2 in Washington State, with some minutiae along the way.

After a bit of a hiatus, Dan "gets back" to podcasting with this latest offering concerning some of his favorite music to listen to while on the road. A very special  album by The Beatles is front and center for this episode, complete with a history of the album's various content releases, as well as a discussion about why this album means what it does to yours truly.

Gribblenation's Doug talks about his recent road trip vacation to the Commonwealth of Virginia and the beautiful mountain drives that can be found in the Old Dominion State.

Gribblenation's Doug summarizes a bit about his trips through the Eastern Townships of Quebec.

A new NFL football season is right around the corner and so let's mark the occasion on this latest Roadcast episode! Dan's guest on the show is Rob Adams, sports director at WGCH radio in Greenwich, CT, and a part-time public address announcer for the High-A minor league Hudson Valley Renegades baseball team in Fishkill, NY. Rob and Dan sat down to break down the NFL landscape division by division...

This past week Tom completed his largest East Coast Road trip in several years.  Said East Coast Road trip was centralized around the 2022 Philadelphia, PA National Road Meet and spanned as far west as Shenandoah National Park with an eastern terminus at Long Beach Island of New Jersey.  What roads did Tom see and what can readers of the Gribblenation blog series expect to see in coming...

A discussion and review of the 2022 National Road Meet held in Philadelphia, PA on August 20-21, 2022 (hosted by Gribblenation's Dan) is in order. If you attended this event, thank you so much for being a part of it! If you missed it, have a listen to find out what you missed:

Gribblenation's Doug talks about combining two of his interests... roads and hiking. With emphasis on Upstate New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Doug talks about some old alignments, recreational paths along bridges and some great hiking trails that bring you to wonderful views of roads.