Where lives were swept away
On the Road: We are sitting outside at a picnic table, eating steamed crawfish bought from a roadside market. It is a warm and sunny day along the Gulf Coast, the perfect kind of day that makes you want to call friends back home and gloat.
Pick of the peculiar
On the Road: The road can be a strange and bizarre place. You don't have to get far off the interstate to see that, thank goodness, we are as charmingly goofy as ever. The problem is deciding which marvels to embrace.
What fueled a 'Lonesome' journey
On the Road: South Alabama is nowhere to be on a short, cold day when the wind is whipping random snowflakes across a low, leaden sky. This is a sad and hungry place.
Paradise found
On the Road: This lonesome crossroads in the middle of Florida is as good a place as any to contemplate this confounding, delightful, irritating, rewarding but essentially uninhabitable appendage dangling from the bottom of America.
The Little Woman keeps her mobile nest on the level
HollyAnn Rogers: In a lot of ways, women have achieved equality in this country. We've narrowed the salary gap, climbed the corporate ladder and crashed loudly and gloriously through many a glass ceiling. And then there's the RV world.
The Guy at the wheel calls his cave a rig
On the Road:Retired N&O; columnist Dennis Rogers and his wife, HollyAnn, are traveling across the nation in a motor home. This is Dennis' latest column from the road. And in the interest of equal time, we've given HollyAnn a column just for today, too. Read it below.
The Route 66 pilgrims
Dennis Rogers:They get off their duffs and, without telling people what they're doing because it might seem a little silly, they take off to look for America down some beat-up old road.
Across America the eating is fine
Dennis Rogers:Travelers from N.C. find good cooks, warm hospitality and even sweet tea.
Where heroes still matter
Dennis Rogers:A sun-blazed cloud of thick smoke silhouetted the Big Horn mountains west of us. Somewhere on the other side of those shadowed peaks were sweaty, thirsty and weary firefighters battling yet another western forest fire.
Where the music died and fame brushed by
Dennis Rogers:There was certainly a Clear Lake, Iowa, before 1959. The only thing was, nobody but Iowans and a maybe a few misplaced Minnesotans knew about the beautiful lake and the charming little town on its shore.
Pride wasn't hauled away
Rogers:You leave a lot of things behind when you take off to see the country in a small motor home.
Good fortune comes in a biscuit
Rogers:Recently retired News & Observer columnist Dennis Rogers and his wife, HollyAnn, are traveling around the nation in a motor home. This is the first of their reports from the road.
Miles to go before I return
Rogers:Editor's note: Columnist Dennis Rogers is retiring after 31 years with The News & Observer, though he promises dispatches from the new roads he will travel.
A son is home, but all is not right
Rogers:Danny Muller and his fellow Marines and sailors of the 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment have returned to Camp Lejeune after more than eight months of hard duty in Ramadi, Iraq.
Marine's wife had to be a good widow
Rogers:This is a love story in Marine Corps scarlet and gold. It is also the story of a woman who turned personal loss into a resounding victory for all families who have lost loved ones in military service.
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