August 1942. "Detroit, Michigan. Waiting room at Greyhound bus depot." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.

December 1954. "La Coquille Club, Palm Beach, Florida." 35mm Kodachrome by Toni Frissell for the Sports Illustrated assignment "Sporting Look: La Coquille." View full size.

October 1941. Berkshire Hills County, Massachusetts. "Tourist camps stretch in an endless village along the Mohawk Trail through the Berkshires." Chicken and Spaghetti, 50 cents! Acetate negative by John Collier for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

        Our annual salute to the start of vacation road-trip season, first posted here 15 years ago. Everyone buckled in? Let's go!

"Great Falls, Montana. Return after 3 weeks Vacation. June 27, 1964." This Kodachrome of a 1960 Chevrolet Parkwood station wagon is from a box of slides found on eBay. View full size.

July 1942. "Oakridge, Oregon. Vacationist." Early version of the Family Campster. Medium format nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Office of War Information. View full size.

1906. "Eating cocoanuts -- Nassau, Bahama Islands, British West Indies." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

December 24, 1941. Washington, D.C. "Greyhound bus terminal on Christmas eve. Little girl waiting." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon. View full size.

1920. "Pacific Highway through a Washington red cedar stump, 20 feet in diameter (man and automobile in tunnel of giant tree stump)." Photo by Darius Kinsey, Seattle. View full size.

October 1939. "Insignia of nationally affiliated tourist courts. Corpus Christi, Texas." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

August 1940. "Tourist house in Truro, Massachusetts. The girl at the easel is a boarder. House belongs to incapacitated Portuguese fisherman and railroad worker from the Cape Verde Islands. He and his wife now make most of their income from boarding tourists in their lovely house during the short three-month season." Medium format negative by Edwin Rosskam. View full size.

September 1943. "Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, and the terminals. Girl waiting for bus by road's edge." Medium format negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.

"Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, 1964." Showing further progress in the application of asphalt and cement to this former palm-studded sandbar. Medium format color transparency, photographer unknown. View full size.

New Jersey circa 1905. "Tent life at Ocean Grove," the Methodist summer retreat also seen here. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

"Shepherd of the Hills Country - 7 Oct 1952." Hubert & Grace's DeSoto has a starring role in the latest "away" episode of Minnesota Kodachromes, parked somewhere near Branson, Missouri. Color slide by Hubert Tuttle. View full size.

"6 Oct 1952. Clara & Grace at chenille & souvenir shop south of _______ ." We're back with Hubert and Grace on their road trip from Minnesota, the day before our previous photo was made at Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Where are we now? 35mm Kodachrome by Hubert Tuttle; paint by Dr. Seuss. View full size.