The “Theodore Roosevelt International Highway” – or “Roosevelt Highway,” for short – once connected Portland, Maine, and Portland, Oregon. For most of the 1920s and well into the 1930s, part of this ...

The car was packed full of ski gear, duffels and enough snacks to keep us satiated for a 7-hour drive through a lonely stretch of land. Our dog slept in the back seat. My husband steered the wheel and ...