(HuffingtonPost) - After seeing so many news reports about our own country losing more jobs, CarsTravelFood was created to offer up ideas of places, businesses and artisans in our own country that we might not have known about or just need a refresher on when it comes to travel ideas. Every dollar spent on any of our local businesses, towns and cities is a dollar in support of our own jobs. When it comes to vacation time, the economy has forced more of us to stay closer to home and in a sense what's old is cool again: We're back to what our parents and grandparents did, when the country's highways were still new and a vacation was getting in the car to explore our America on the open road.