The Red Solo Traveler Podcast

Charleston sells pastel streets. The collection started in 1773. Sumter is a ruin you reach by ferry.Why downtown is the 1680 peninsula and not the 1670 landing, why America’s first museum is a 1980 building, why the City Market is not the slave mart, and why the first shot of the Civil War was not fired from Fort Sumter.Read the article: The Museum Is Older Than the Country. The Fort Still Needs a Boat.https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/discovering-charlestons-history-andVisit the Charleston MuseumBook a Gray Line TourBook a Fort Sumter Cruise and VisitFollow Red Solo TravelerWebsite: https://www.redsolotraveler.comX: @RedSoloTravelerInstagram: @redsolotravelerYouTube: @redsolotravelerConversation produced from Louis’s article.

The meet started while the country was at war. The Hall of Fame sits on Union Avenue because the track was already there.Why the Hall is across the street from Saratoga Race Course, why the first public room was a casino, and why you do not have to love the sport to use the ticket.Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/racing-through-the-national-museum-of-racing-and-hall-of-fameFollow Red Solo TravelerWebsite: https://www.redsolotraveler.comX: @RedSoloTravelerInstagram: @redsolotravelerYouTube: @redsolotravelerConversation produced from Louis’s article.

New York reserved the springs in 1909. The cars sit in the plant that used to bottle them.Hours, tickets, and whatever is on the ground floor this month live in the written piece. This episode talks through that piece: why a car museum sits inside a state park, what the 1909 reservation was for, and why the bottles left before the Pontiacs and the Mercedes arrived.Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/the-state-reserved-the-springs-theHotels in Downtown Saratoga SpringsStay on site at the Gideon Putnam HotelFollow Red Solo TravelerWebsite: https://www.redsolotraveler.comX: @RedSoloTravelerInstagram: @redsolotravelerYouTube: @redsolotravelerConversation produced from Louis’s article.

People walk into a Strip District ice warehouse looking for ketchup. The name is a senator who died in 1991. The war that made Pittsburgh is upstairs.Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/pouring-out-the-ketchup-at-the-heinzPittsburgh Things to DoDowntown Pittsburgh HotelsWalk the Burgh Walking TourFollow Red Solo TravelerWebsite: https://www.redsolotraveler.comX: @RedSoloTravelerInstagram: @redsolotravelerYouTube: @redsolotravelerConversation produced from Louis’s article.

Baseball was not invented in Cooperstown. The National Baseball Hall of Fame opened there in 1939 on a story Doubleday never told. You go for the plaques on Main Street.Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/soak-in-baseball-history-at-the-baseballNearby hotels available in OneontaStay where I stayedFollow Red Solo TravelerWebsite: https://www.redsolotraveler.comX: @RedSoloTravelerInstagram: @redsolotravelerYouTube: @redsolotravelerConversation produced from Louis’s article.

Pittsburgh still sells the Steel City. The tallest tower was built to rust. A hospital fills the floors. The walk is two hours from a white bike on Penn Avenue to Market Square.Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/well-i-was-walking-in-pittsburghBook your own Walk The Burgh tour!Other Pittsburgh Things to Do!Stay in the City!Follow Red Solo TravelerWebsite: https://www.redsolotraveler.comX: @RedSoloTravelerInstagram: @redsolotravelerYouTube: @redsolotravelerConversation produced from Louis’s article.

A cocktail family’s castle on the Metacomet Ridge. A 1950 newspaper picnic. The lawn where they asked Eisenhower to run.Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/what-makes-talcott-mountain-state-park-uniqueBook your stay near the tower and state park!Follow Red Solo TravelerWebsite: https://www.redsolotraveler.comX: @RedSoloTravelerInstagram: @redsolotravelerYouTube: @redsolotravelerConversation produced from Louis’s article.

The Hall of Fame started as a New York dinner. Cleveland won the building because Alan Freed said “rock and roll” on WJW and the city would not let the museum leave. The pyramid opened nine years after the vote. The dinner still travels.Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/keep-on-rockin-at-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fameBook your visit to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!Book your stay a few blocks away at the Hyatt Regency Cleveland at the ArcadeFollow Red Solo TravelerWebsite: https://www.redsolotraveler.comX: @RedSoloTravelerInstagram: @redsolotravelerYouTube: @redsolotravelerConversation produced from Louis’s article.

Two pools sit in the footprints of the Twin Towers. 2,983 names run the bronze. The plaza is free. The museum is seventy feet down.Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/the-two-voids-where-the-towers-stoodThere are numerous options for tickets if you're interested in visiting. If you purchase through any of the links below, I receive a small commission:9/11 Memorial & Museum Timed Ticket with Tour Options9/11 Memorial Official Guided Tour9/11 Memorial Tour with Museum and One World Entry OptionsFollow Red Solo TravelerWebsite: https://www.redsolotraveler.comX: @RedSoloTravelerInstagram: @redsolotravelerYouTube: @redsolotravelerConversation produced from Louis’s article.

United 93 left Newark late. The passengers learned the other planes were weapons. Eighteen minutes from Washington, the 757 went into a Somerset County field that is still their grave.Read the article: https://www.redsolotraveler.com/p/shanksvilles-memorial-an-unlikely-9-11-landmarkFollow Red Solo TravelerWebsite: https://www.redsolotraveler.comX: @RedSoloTravelerInstagram: @redsolotravelerYouTube: @redsolotravelerConversation produced from Louis’s article.