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🗓️ 28 July 2012
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Get inspired by Jane and Michael Stern for a summer road trip to find classic American dishes with a regional twist, like chowder and barbecue — and a few treats that are definitely one of a kind. We'll also meet the author of a guidebook with tips for navigating Interstate-75 between Michigan and Florida. Also, Rick swaps tales with Richard Bangs on how adventure travel can change the way you view the world.
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0:00.0 | Jane and Michael Stern will go out of their way to find the perfect American comfort food. |
0:04.0 | There is nothing more soothing after a meal of hot spicy barbecue or hot spicy |
0:10.6 | chicken than cool lemon ice box pie. |
0:14.1 | The diner in Atlanta had the best lemon ice box pie. |
0:18.6 | And for Dave Hunter, Interstate 75 is more than just a fast way to drive from Detroit to Dixie. |
0:24.0 | Because we do love those little towns up in Ohio where you can still see the old Americana. |
0:30.0 | Places like Troy, for instance, it's just a beautiful little Victorian town. |
0:34.5 | And Richard Banks explains why he'd rather do his traveling on a Whitewater River or Mountain Trail. |
0:39.0 | Adventure Travel is really more of a state of mind. |
0:41.3 | It's really trying to move off the comfort zone, go down a path |
0:45.0 | you've never been down before, or often discover the world for the first time, and yourself. |
0:49.0 | Hi, I'm Rick Steeves. From American Road Food and a guide to I-75 to Richard Bang's adventures around the world. |
0:55.0 | There's a lot for you to enjoy in the hour ahead on Travel with Rick Steve's. |
1:00.0 | What kind of travel gets your adrenaline pumping? Coming up today on Travel with Rick Steeves, Richard Bangs explains his passion for adventure travel in the most unexpected places. |
1:11.0 | In Canadian snowbird, Dave Hunter has found a way to turn the drudgery of a long-distance drive on Interstate 75 into a well-paced adventure of its own. |
1:20.0 | Let's start today's travel with Rick Steves with a return visit from Jane and Michael Stern. |
1:25.2 | They're the experts at finding the slices of Americana that tend to come on a blue plate special |
1:30.5 | at local diners and dives all over the USA. |
1:36.0 | Integral to appreciating cultures all over the world is of course eating. |
1:40.0 | You may debate this, but it's clear to me that a very important part of American cuisine is simply |
1:44.4 | road food. It's folk art. We didn't have any fancy chef inventing it. This is traditional |
1:48.9 | food, steeped in the ethnicity of America, a melting pot country with a melting pot cuisine and it's cheap. |
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