Books
and Articles
Dive into our collection of over 20 published books exploring Route 66, the infancy of the American auto industry, and classic road trips. Our feature articles appear in leading travel and history publications as we share stories of America’s most fascinating places and people.
Digital
Content
Join our international community of passionate road trip enthusiasts that follow our regular blog posts for travel tips and smile inducing stories. Check out our YouTube channel for engaging video content and shared adventures. And join us on Sunday mornings at the virtual diner that is Coffee With Jim, our weekly podcast. From time capsule diners to ghost towns, dusty trails and legendary Route 66 Jim Hinckley’s America is a shared adventure.
Coffee With Jim Podcast
Tune in weekly to the Coffee With Jim podcast for conversations with fascinating guests from tourism directors and film producers to historians and adventurers. Each episode is a shared adventure that brings fresh perspectives on travel, preservation, community development and the enduring appeal of the great American road trip. It’s a virtual diner for folks that are passionate about road trips and the diverse, colorful American story.
Welcome To
Jim Hinckley’s America
It’s a shared adventure! For over three decades we’ve been sharing America’s amazing story and inspiring memory making road trips by telling people where to go. From neon-lit diners along iconic Route 66 to hidden ghost towns in the desert southwest, we’re your trusted guide to authentic American adventures that blur the line between past and present.
Sharing America’s Story. Inspiring Road Trips. It’s What We Do.
If you dream of adventures on two-lane highways where the line between past and present is blurred, of swapping stories over fresh diner pie, or discovering the stories of small towns, pull up a chair. At Jim Hinckley’s America, we’re storytellers with a passion for the great American road trip.
Every week on Coffee With Jim, our Podbean based podcast, we host your favorite virtual diner table. Expect laughter, road trip inspiration, and conversations with preservationists, authors, adventurers, and colorful characters.
Coffee With Jim has been officially certified as a Route 66 Centennial programs!
We don’t just tell you where to go. We show you!
Developed for Kingman Main Street by Talisman Magic Marketing, Kingman Tours: A Walkabout with Jim Hinckley pairs history with technology. Start at the life-sized bronze statue of Jim in Kingman’s Depot Plaza on Route 66. This is a physical tour that uses QR code technology AND a virtual tour through the historic heart of this storied desert crossroads. kingman.tours
Through partnerships with hometown heroes, the owners of motels frozen in time, and road-trip tour experts we’re inspiring road trips and transforming transforming travel. Our promotional partners aren’t just sponsors. They’re storytellers that are as passionate as we are to share America’s story and inspire road trips.
Want to Go Deeper?
Click below to enjoy the full blog post, packed with tales of upcoming centennial celebrations, partnering motels with nostalgic charm, and the rollicking spirit behind Roadrunner Lodge, Enchanted Trails RV Park, Gilligan’s Tours, and more.
✅ Read the full post →
(And pour that second cup of coffee while you’re at it.)
Latest Articles
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Coffee With Jim, February 1, 2026
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qf4j3-1a33e03 Our visit with Mayor Janet Jernigan in Needles, California will surely inspire a road trip or two! A discussion about the upcoming Route 66 Info fair at the historic El Garces Harvey House Hotel scheduled for February 14, 2026 kicked things off. Then we talked about upcoming events including the annual rodeo, new motels
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relics of war
Relics of war are scattered throughout the deserts that embrace the Colorado River Valley. They are tangible links to an era when the world was being convulsed by global war, and the United States was proclaimed to be the arsenal of democracy. In the early 1940s, the dusty expanses of western Arizona and California’s Mojave
Professional Services
Let Jim Hinckley’s America be your passport to adventure.
Custom tour development and consulting
Speaking engagements and presentations
Tourism development projects for communities
Community Educational program creation
Whether you’re planning your first Route 66 odyssey or are looking for ideas on how to harness tourism as a catalyst for economic development and historic district revitalization, we’re here to tell you where to go – in the best possible way. We write feature articles for magazines and for tour company newsletters, blogs for clients of Talisman Magic Marketing, community visitors guides, and develop community education programs. We also add some smile inducing programs to conferences, festivals and conventions. What can we do for you?
Deana Nelson is more than a sponsor, she is a hometown hero –