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 (https://www.youtube.com/@JimHinckleyAmerica).
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.
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.
18 Oct 2026
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.
16 Oct 2026
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.
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