Coffee With Jim

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Our virtual diner on Route 66 has a new home! The livestream episodes of Coffee With Jim have moved to the Jim HInckley's America YouTube channel.  Road trip inspiring, thought provoking and smile inducing conversations with fascinating guests such as film producer John Paget, Casey Claypool, Director Illinois Route 66 Scenic Byway, Vickie Ashcraft, New Mexico Route 66 Alliance, and author Cheryl Eichar Jett.  Meanwhile, here on Podbean, we will be sharing exciting and inspiring trivia filled chapters from America's amazing story, served with a healthy dose of road trip inspiration. New episodes posted every week! Coffee With Jim, the weekly podcast from Jim Hinckley's America, is made possible by listeners through Patreon. It is also made possible through support from the Roadrunner Lodge Motel, Gilligan's Route 66 Tours, Deana Nelson State Farm Insurance, Two Lane America, Enchanted Trails Trading Post & RV Park, and RouteTrip USA.

  1. 2d ago

    Route 66 In The Sunflower State

    Route 66 in Kansas, less than 15 miles from border to border. Colorful characters, historic mining towns, a one of a kind picturesque bridge, roadside giants, a century old general store, miles of smiles and even a Civil War battlefield. Be prepared to be surprised during this road trip inspiring conversation with Phillip Vogel, President Kansas Route 66 Association. Join the conversation. Invite your friends. Jim Hinckley's America is a shared adventure!,

  2. 2d ago

    A Harley Davidson, A Mother, A Daughter, and Epic Adventure

    It was truly an epic and historic adventure. Effie Hotchkiss, her mother, a Harley Davidson with sidecar, and a coast to coast trip and back again - in 1915.  “I got a lot of non-family discouragement,” Effie recalled in her memoir. “Decent roads would be non-existent for most of the way; there would be deserts to cross, high mountains to climb, lack of water, no repair shop, no this and no that. Some things there would be, such as wild animals, wilder Indians, probably floods, maybe cyclones and other offhand acts of God; until it began to sound so interesting I would not have missed it for the world.” On this episode of Coffee With Jim, our series about pioneering and adventuresome women at the dawn of the great American road trip continues. Sharing America's story, Inspiring road trips. It's what we do at Jim Hinckley's America.

  3. Oct 18

    Before Route 66: Epic Road Trips & Fearless Women

    Epic road trips and fearless women were major new stories in the first decades of the 20th century. Often they were also at the center of promotional and marketing campaigns. Alice Huyler Ramsey was a young New Jersey motorist and socialite who drove across the continent in 1909. Then there was Effie Hotchkiss, who in 1915 rode a motorcycle from New York to California and back with her mother in the sidecar. They were the first women to ride a motorcycle from coast to coast. And Emily Post, the future authority on etiquette, wrote a book, By Motor To The Golden Gate, about her epic 1915 transcontinental odyssey to California. At Jim Hinckley’s America we tell people where to go and encourage people to discov er America with road trips. Alice Ramsey illustrates the importance of road trips, as well as unique chapters in the history of road trips. Next week our series about pioneering women and the dawning of the great American road trip continues with the story of Effie Hotchkiss, the first women to ride a motorcycle from coast to coast.

  4. Oct 16

    Before Route 66: Fearless Women & Epic Road Trips

    Alice Huyler Ramsey was a young New Jersey motorist who drove across the continent in 1909. Then there was Effie Hotchkiss, who in 1915 rode a motorcycle from New York to California and back with her mother in the sidecar. And Emily Post, the future authority on etiquette, wrote a book, By Motor To The Golden Gate, about her epic 1915 transcontinental odyssey. At Jim Hinckley’s America we believe that the best way to understand America is with a road trip. So, for us Alice Ramsey is a role model, an example of why inspiring road trips is so very important to ensuring that the American story continues into the Route 66 bicentennial and beyond. Next week our series about pioneering women and the dawning of the great American road trip continues with the story of Effie Hotchkiss, the first women to ride a motorcycle from coast to coast.

  5. Oct 14

    Route 66 Lost & Found

    Route 66 relics lost and found. A Guide Book to Highway 66 by Jack Rittenhouse was published in 1946. That little guide book that would fit into a pocket transformed a Michigan factory workers life in the 21st century. Scott Sheehan has spent more than a decade locating and documenting the motels, campgrounds, garages, and service stations listed in Rittenhouse's book. Those road trip adventures inspired Scott to pen a book. And they led to friendships that spanned the globe. On today's episode of Coffee With Jim it's road trip inspiration, a Route 66 adventure, and a conversation about the magic that is the great Amerian road trip. If you would like to know more about publisher and adventurer Jack Rittenhouse, he was the subject of the August 16, 2026 episode of Coffee With Jim. Our guest on that program was David Farmer, author of the new book, Jack Rittenhouse: A Western Literary Life piblished by University of New Mexico Press.

  6. Oct 9

    Epic Road Trips and Harriet White Fisher's Grand Adventure

    There are road trips, and then there are epic road trips. The later is exactly what Harriet White Fisher experienced when she became known as the first woman to drive around the world. Her remarkable journey began in the summer of 1909. She and her traveling companions, with a pet monkey and dog, drove across Europe, Egypt, India, Ceylon, China and Japan before crossing the Pacific. Their adventure continued with the drive across the American West and Midwest. But this incredible road trip is only part of Harriet White Fisher’s amazing story. On this episode of Coffee With Jim we share another exciting chapter in the American story. And we introduce you to the amazing Harriet White Fisher known as the “Iron Woman” of Trenton. Coffee With Jim from Jim Hinckley's America is made possible through listener support on Patreon. It is also sponsored by the RouteTrip USA, Roadrunner Lodge Motel in Tucumcari, Gilligan's Route 66 Tours, Deana Nelson State Farm Insurance, Two Lane America and the Enchanted Trails Trading Post & RV Park in Albuquerque.

  7. Oct 5

    Route 66 In The Land of Lincoln

    From the historic heart of Pontiac to the First Annual Mother Road Conference, from Docs Just off 66 in Girard to the innovative Route 66 Experience in Springfield as well as educational projects, the use of AI, websites, and the future of Route 66 we had lots to talk about. Our conversation with Casey Claypool, Director of the Illinois Route 66 Scenic Byway, on this epsidoe of Coffee With Jim was chock full of inspiration for road trips, for entrepreneurs and for adventurers. When it comes to Route 66 the passionate community leaders and business owners along this storied old highway in the Land of Lincoln dream big. Join the conversation. Invite your friends. Share the adventure.

  8. Oct 2

    Coffee With Jim: Cheerful Idiots and Road Trips

    Cheerful idiots and road trips seem to go together, that was the conclusion derived at by a writer for Outing magazine in March 1905. Today the accounts of early automobile owners, manufacturers and their road trip adventures are an endless source of fascination.  Let me introduce you to Elmer Lovejoy. In 1892 he rode a biccyle from a ranch in Colorado to the World's Fair in Chicago. Then he opened a bicycle repair and sales shop in Laramie, Wyoming and organized the Laramie Bicycle Club. On May 7, 1898, something new and startling rolled from his shop, the Lovejoy Novelty Works. It was a steam powered carriage proclaimed to be the first automobile built west of the Mississippi River. In 1905 Lovejay became the regional dealer for the Franklin Motor Car Company and in1907 established the first automobile rental business in Wyoming. The years bracketing the turn of the century are rich with colorful stories and even more colorful characters. Horatio Nelson Jackson made the first successful transcontinental drive across the United States in 1903. Sponsored by Maxwell-Briscoe, Alice Huyler Ramsey became the first woman to drive an automobile across the United States in 1909. In 1908 a 22,000-mile automobile competition started at Times Square in New York. The finish line was in Paris, France. Jim Hinckley's America is a shared adventure. Join us, invite your friends. And let's share the stories about great American road trips.

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Our virtual diner on Route 66 has a new home! The livestream episodes of Coffee With Jim have moved to the Jim HInckley's America YouTube channel.  Road trip inspiring, thought provoking and smile inducing conversations with fascinating guests such as film producer John Paget, Casey Claypool, Director Illinois Route 66 Scenic Byway, Vickie Ashcraft, New Mexico Route 66 Alliance, and author Cheryl Eichar Jett.  Meanwhile, here on Podbean, we will be sharing exciting and inspiring trivia filled chapters from America's amazing story, served with a healthy dose of road trip inspiration. New episodes posted every week! Coffee With Jim, the weekly podcast from Jim Hinckley's America, is made possible by listeners through Patreon. It is also made possible through support from the Roadrunner Lodge Motel, Gilligan's Route 66 Tours, Deana Nelson State Farm Insurance, Two Lane America, Enchanted Trails Trading Post & RV Park, and RouteTrip USA.

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  • Creator
    jimhinckley
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    20
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2023 All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    Coffee With Jim

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