“What is more beautiful than a road? It is the symbol and the image of an active, varied life.”

-- George Sand

U.S. Highway 50 stretches over 3,000 miles from Ocean City, Maryland, to Sacramento, California. Over much of that distance it is two-lane highway carrying local residents, while most travelers from distant states race along Interstate expressways.

The anachronism and the charm of Route 50 is that today there is no need for a national highway traveling over rural 2-lane roads, along suburban neighborhood streets, through city blocks, and past small-town squares -- a highway that winds up mountains and dips down to cross rivers.

It is there, nonetheless, and a person with a house on Route 50 in Kansas, say, can pull out of the driveway and drive east to Ocean City or west to Sacramento, and never leave the road that passes home.

This site explores places on and near Route 50 and things about those places that interest me. It will tell you nothing about hotel rates or restaurant ratings, but you might find a number of things that interest you.

The site is set up for a trip from east to west, so you might begin where westbound Route 50 originates, in Maryland.

Enjoy the ride!

Scott

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”

-- G. K. Chesterton