“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 runs for over 3,000 miles, from Ocean City, Maryland, to Sacramento, California. For much of that distance it is two-lane highway carrying local residents, while travelers from distant states race along nearby Interstates.

The anachronism and charm of today’s Route 50 arises in part because there is no need for a national highway that travels over rural two-lane roads, along suburban streets, down city blocks, and past small-town squares, as well as up mountains and down to rivers.

Many people have houses on Route 50, and each of them can pull out of the driveway and drive east to Ocean City or west to Sacramento, never leaving the road that passes home.

This site explores places on and near Route 50 that interest me. You will learn nothing about hotel rooms or restaurant ratings, but perhaps some of the things that interest me will also interest you.

The site is set up for a trip from east to west, so you might begin at the eastern origin of Route 50, in Ocean City, Maryland.

Enjoy the ride!

Scott

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

-- G. K. Chesterton