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Dear Readers, We hit the ground running yesterday in San Francisco, with stops at the real crookedest street, some fab food at a renovated soda fountain, a snapshot at The Golden Gate Bridge, and a driving tour past all sorts of cool vintage signs that I tried to snap photos from the window of the [...]
Yes it’s true! We’ll be traversing the west coast this week, from San Fran to Los An with all sorts of stops and photo ops planned in between! Retro Roadhusband and I are celebrating 10 years of wedded bliss with a trip to California, where we met all those years ago, and of course I’ve [...]
Hey kids! It’s a beautiful sunny Saturday, and while I hope to hunker down at some point and do some official writing of posts, sometimes you gotta enjoy life while it happens. So you may get a post or two from the road, or a yard sale today. But before I go out and play [...]
Here’s some behind the scenes skinny from our little Retro Roadfamily. Though you know him as Retro Roadhusband, and I know him as my dearie, boo boo, partner in crime, and love of my life, he is – is in real life, musician, singer, songwriter, producer Cliff Hillis. (He’s the cutie in the middle, wearing his [...]
Just had to share the cool news about a Retro Roadmap favorite- Shady Glen Dairy Store and Restaurant of Manchester CT is a James Beard Foundation America’s Classic Restaurant! How could you forget the cheesiest cheeseburger you’ve ever seen on Retro Roadmap? We visited Shady Glen last fall and it has since become one of [...]
We’re doing some “retro – renovations” to the Hacienda this year, and one thing I’ve wanted to do for ages is to add our house number in script, in addition to our actual number (surrounded by a fabulous vintage palm tree frame that came with the house- we LOVE that!) (One of the reasons we [...]
I’m washing ‘em and Retro Roadhusband is wearing ‘em. We’ll soon see which one holds up better! I want only the best for my Retro Roadmap readers!
Huzzah huzzah! Nothing like a cold rainy Sunday to get back to making some much needed improvements behind the scene here at Retro Roadmap, and I thought I’d clue everyone in on what has been going on when I’m not out doing the fun stuff on the road, and how I hope it makes Retro [...]
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