Girlie Motorcycle & Road Trip Blog
Full tank. Wandering heart.
While standing in a gas station, I picked the town of Clayton as a place to stop for the night while looking at my phone. My town choice criteria mostly centered around: what was...
It wasn’t until I pulled up to the leaning water tower in Groom, Texas that I really understood that the lean is really pronounced from certain angles. Depending on how you approach it, your...
Not unlike Sunny the Muffler Man, I spotted this large letter postcard style mural in Farmington, New Mexico out of the corner of my eye while riding down main street. It’s in an alleyway...
There were many times when road tripping through the southwest that I tried to find the balance between knowing too much and knowing too little about a place I’d be passing through. On one...
If you grew up in the 70’s and 80’s you are probably part of the last generation to remember first hand what it was like to commonly see chasing bulb signs, rotating Kentucky Fried...
When you think about Route 66 and Shamrock, Texas, the first thing that springs to mind is likely the gorgeous vintage Tower Conoco Station and the U Drop Inn Cafe. It is an incredible...
The American Southwest is home to many a giant fiberglass rooster. It’s not entirely unexpected when as I’ve posited before that these feathered beasts are clearly amassing a Giant Chicken Army. This handsome gent...
My personal experience with Muffler Men over the last decade+ has been largely intentional. When I am passing through or close by a town where there is a big guy, I’ll make it a...
There is something that just strikes me funny about being labeled as the world’s second largest watermelon slice. That’s the fate of this big guy that sits behind the John Wesley Powell River History...
In August of 2023, CBS News ran a segment called “Fans of Muffler Men to the Rescue.” It follows Joel Baker of American Giants and his fantastic work of tracking down histories of muffler...
Since I don’t really actively participate in social media anymore, it feels pretty good to allow myself to just share simple snapshots like I used to on say, Instagram, here on the ole blog....
If I’m not mistaken, the carpet vikings get called muffler men but since they don’t share the same mold they’re really like siblings or maybe cousins. For what it’s worth I still refer to...
If you are traveling along Route 6 in Pennsylvania, you will encounter a giant gas pump in the town of Sylvania. Obviously it isn’t a working pump and serves more as an eye-catcher. If...
Back in 2016, I made a stop on Route 6 in Towanda, Pennsylvania to enjoy lunch at the counter of the Red Rose Diner. As I was leaving, the owner took my picture as...
This Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco ghost sign on the side of the Angry Burrito in Sayre, Pennsylvania is hanging on for dear life. Though it is quite faded it’s still a beautiful sight. Don’t...
When you don’t live in or routinely travel through a place you aren’t able to witness the incremental changes that occur there day in and day out. As a casual traveler who may only...
When I pulled in to the town of Honesdale, Pennsylvania, my eyes were immediately drawn to this beautiful Welcome to Honesdale mural painted on the back of a building. I didn’t spot a date...
This church out near Greenport here on Long Island typically has great messages posted. Over the last two decades I’ve stopped and snapped pictures of more than a few. When I saw this one...
“Mom, can we get a giant roller skate?”“No, we have a giant roller skate at home.” Giant roller skate at home… In the realm of giant roadside roller skates, the rooftop roller that crowns...
With decades of photos tucked away for someday, as I previously mentioned, on occasion I have a little difficulty remembering where I might have snapped a photo of something. Generally speaking, I have fairly...
