I’ve spent the last 6 weeks or so working through a mammoth backlog going back to 2004 in an effort to update existing pages and create new sections of the website. Now online is a fledgling Michigan page with a handful of photos from our Interstate 80 trip in September 2005 and Carter Buchanan’s November 2004 Midwest trip. These trips also represent the bulk of the Ohio updates that now include coverage of all of Interstate 80 westbound and large portions of Interstate 75, as well as Toledo area coverage. I have two more batches of photos for Ohio to go through covering both Cleveland from Justin Cozart in 2006 and Cincinnati from the rest of Carter’s trip.

Further south and continuing through my 2005-backlog, West Virginia coverage is now online for Interstate 64 west from Virginia to Beckley and Interstate 77 south from Beckley to the Virginia state line. These freeways are among some of the most beautiful in the eastern third of the country in my opinion.

Also revamped was all of southeastroads into the new template design. I coupled that makeover with updates to the aging Tennessee section of the site. Added are photos I took through Chattanooga in 2005 and photos from myself also in 2005 and from Andy earlier this year in northeast Tennessee. Interstate 26 is now up to date to reflect the 2007-exit renumbering and 2005-extension northward over Interstate 181. Additionally we added information on the SmartFix40 construction project http://www.tdot.state.tn.us/smartfix/ in Knoxville that completely rebuilt a portion of Tennessee 158 and will close a three mile or so section of Interstate 40 in Downtown Knoxville for approximately 14 months beginning in May 2008.