I love cool stuff like this. These guys are taking a new approach to Route 66 as it were...they are discovering the "Lincoln Highway". In our area, we know it as Lancaster Avenue. Check it out:

A Blog Along The Lincoln Highway: We’re making a TV program about one of America’s great roads, and we’re hoping you might enjoy reading about some of our behind-the-scenes work. I’m Rick Sebak, and I write most of the tales. Bob Lubomski is our camerman. And Glenn Syska has been traveling with us recently. He made the video blog entries in 2008. Back in 2007, Jarrett Buba did all that. Watch for A RIDE ALONG THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY on your local PBS station October 29, 2008 at 8 PM.

A fast Tuesday: Eastern PA and NJ
August 25th, 2008

Who am I trying to fool? After we leave the Lincoln Motor Court, we stop for a sandwich at the Jean Bonnet Tavern just a mile or two east of the cottages. Bob and Glenn both get the crabcake sandwich (recommended by Carissa) and I get soup and fried oysters. When we walk back to the car, suddenly it’s dark, and we are tired, so we find rooms in Bedford. We are barely a hundred miles from home.

Tuesday morning we are up early and back on the Lincoln Highway. We scoff at the PA Turnpike at Breezewood and continue eastbound on 30. It’s a beautiful day, so Chambersburg, Gettysburg, Abbotstown and York all look good. At York we somehow end up on the 30 bypass around town and we cross the Susquehanna on the newer highway bridge.

I crank up my iPhone, check some items on the internet, and find out that we’re lucky. Tuesday is a market day in Lancaster, and I suggest we stop there for lunch. Bob and I learned to love the Lancaster Central Market two years ago when we were shooting our program called To Market To Market To Buy a Fat Pig....Lunch is fast and tasty and relaxing, and we’re only a half block from King Street, the path of the old Lincoln Highway. If we hadn’t just done a story about this market, we could easily include it as a highlight of the cross-country journey. You just have to pass through Lancaster on a Tuesday, a Friday or a Saturday.

With some cookies and other goodies for road consumption, we pull out of Lancaster, amazed at the proliferation of so-called “outlet malls” on the east side of town along the Lincoln Highway.

We don’t flee too fast because we know we want to get a shot or two of the Dutch Haven windmill, an Amish Country landmark where you can get souvenirs of Pennsylvania towns with provocative names and free samples of shoo-fly pie, one of our state’s grandest contributions to world cuisine....We want to keep moving. Philadelphia’s suburbs start blending one into the other. We stay on Route 30, but when we get to the intersection with US 1, we pull into the parking lot of the Overbrook Presbyterian Church and get out the camera to shoot some video of this pivotal point where the Lincoln Highway (in one of its many guises) makes the turn west toward San Francisco, or north toward Times Square, depending on which way you’re traveling. It’s the spot where the Township of Lower Merion (settled 1682) meets Overbrook Farms (established 1892) in a tony part of Philly. I’m not sure how we’ll use this in the program, but we’re here, so we get some shots.