The Historic Fire Hall for Engine Co.18 in Nashville, Tennessee is known and loved by many. It served as a fire station from 1930 to 1986. Due to neglect, the building became an eyesore and eventually a homeless camp. Vacant and deteriorating since an accidental fire in 2011 the Metro Codes Department placed a demolition order on it. Nashville Interior designer Karen Goodlow took ownership of the severely damaged building with a vision that it could be a beautiful repurposed building that would serve the community once again. A place that artists, creatives, and small business owners can use ..read more

Down a back alley two blocks from the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa, Dean Wright is busy welding an exhaust pipe onto a ’79 Vespa P200E. Working in site of a whiteboard crowded with notes on orders for custom paint jobs and engine adjustments, he has only a little time for conversation and none for dawdling. “It’s going to be a busy day,” he says. “We have five scooters – some from as far away as Chicago, Atlanta, and St. Louis – that all need to be finished, polished, and ready for pickup by 6pm.” Having just put in a 40 hour work week at his second job as a manufacturer engi ..read more

Tanner Wendell is a photographer based in Seattle specializing in adventure, landscapes, dreaming, and exploring. He is also very passionate about abolishing modern day slavery. He self-published his book “Shoot The Skies” which is a 365 day landscape photo project. The book pre-sold over 2,250 hardcover 8×10 copies to 30 countries and raised over $100,000 dollars with 100% of the proceeds donated to The A21 Campaign to abolish human trafficking. Photo by Tanner Wendell We asked him to share with us one of his favorite pla ..read more

The entire Living Lands & Waters fleet causing the river for their next cleanup location. Photo by @livinglandsandwaters Cleaning Up the Rivers of America Life on a two lane road is an unpredictable adventure. We can plan a trip down to the last detail, but there’s no anticipating who we’ll meet along the way or how the road will bend and turn as we go. Not to mention the possibility of running out of gas or cash, or needing to call upon the saving grace of a tow. Something the crew of Living Lands & Waters is hoping for right now. Why are these people living on a trash ..read more

Vermont Army Major unites with fellow veterans to reunite Purple Hearts to military families across the nation Imagine for a second that you’re seeing your brother, son, dad, or uncle off to war. That precious, fleeting goodbye is filled with tears, prayers, and the promise of returning home. You watch them walk down the driveway to catch the bus and just like that, they’re gone. Two weeks later, you get a knock on your door. You open it, your body tightens, and everything around you slows up. A man in uniform hands you a telegram saying that your loved one is never coming home. As your f ..read more

Filming American Pickers keeps Mike pretty busy these days, but it’s collaborating with guys like Timothy and AC that allow him to still share his passion for bicycles and old buildings.  It’s a cold, rainy Tuesday morning in Columbia, Tennessee, about 40 minutes south of Nashville, as three bike shop owners — Mike Wolfe, Timothy Wakefield, and AC Howell — walk into the Trek Bicycle Shop on Main Street in the town square. This isn’t the first time the three have met, but it’s the confluence of three generations and 160 years of bike shop ownership and love. Colum ..read more

  Chad Pregrake, the founder of the Mississippi River clean-up organization, Living Lands & Waters, is heading for dry land to show you his plan on how to reintroduce Bison back to LeClaire, IA by repurposing an interstate bridge.  Once upon a time, both Illinois and Iowa were prairie landscapes where hundreds of thousands of American bison roamed free. Bison are a keystone species that are essential to maintaining the integrity of the food chain and plant life in the prairie biome.  However, due to overhunting and development, bison populations dropped to near zero at the ..read more

Did you know the first New Year’s ball drop was actually intended to help sailors? It’s true. Originally called a “time ball” in England back in 1829, sailors set their telescopes towards the shore. They knew when the ball began to descend it was officially time to adjust their watches and chronometers. It wasn’t until 1845 when the U.S. Naval Observatory caught on to the idea that many cities and port towns began implementing time balls. Since then, we’ve graduated to brighter, gaudier, and more creative versions. Here are five cities that took that tradition and made it unique to their ..read more

Photo by Ben Rollins Influenced by his family’s labor in the oilfields of the Texas Panhandle, singer-songwriter Ryan Culwell brings his stories to life. Mike Wolfe just entered the night shift — the one any experienced Two Lane traveler knows well. It’s the hour when the dashboard clock flips from PM to AM, you’re wishing you were snoring like your friends in the back but it’s your turn in the driver’s seat. He takes some big gulps of his coffee and starts searching for a playlist to occupy his mind over the next few hundred miles. It’s for moments like this where only a Ryan Culwel ..read more

JT and Kasey sitting around his dad’s Buffalo Sound sign they preserved and turned into a table for guests Buffalo Soul is a one-of-kind vacation rental that delivers an authentic Music City experience unlike any other When in Nashville, there are certain staple experiences that you make sure not to miss. They often include, in no particular order, hot chicken, meat and three, and honky-tonking on Lower Broadway. There’s no shortage of live music in the crowded bars, the sold-out Bridgestone shows, or out in the elements at Ascend Amphitheater, but what they lack is an eye-to-eye connection t ..read more