Started out the day being greeted by this VMS with the message "I-80 EB Closed at Mississippi River". Had to turn around and trudge southward along the real I-74 eastbound, which was equally under construction for an ARRA based resurfacing project. A routine inspection revealed damage to a faulty floor beam and currently only one lane of westbound traffic is permitted to use the bridge due to [...]
the third day of our trip, on which we actually cross into Alaska, and complete the Alaska Highway. Dawn in Yukon. Just past Haines Junction, we hit the final stretch of Alaska Highway. Close-up of distant purple mountains over Destruction Bay. Yes, that is what it is called! It was named by the troops who were building the road in 1942, and had the wind blow away their new structures. [...]
Texas has pushed quite a bit of old video to the web, including a few historic road gems. Take a look at this view of construction in Austin in 1965. The Texas Archive of the Moving Image can be found here.
Photos from the Alaska highway! Okay, well, first photos from flying to Seattle, and then driving to Dawson Creek, where the Alaska Highway begins. Some photos in this post brought to you by Daniel Brim. We have an equitable arrangement: he provides talent at taking photographs, I run us off the road only occasionally. Somewhere over the Rockies. Between Denver and Seattle for sure. And here’s the northern lights! Just [...]
The third day of the southern trip from July, 2008. And the fourth, since a lot of the third day was unfortunately spent in boring parts of Tennessee. Somewhere in all that kudzu, there is an old US-11 bridge. […]
Second batch from July of 2008, featuring mainly US-82 and US-78 in Arkansas and Mississippi. Along US-82 in southwest Arkansas is a wild animal farm. Here is a half-horse half-zebra creature. Some of the last cutouts in Mississippi. There is a US-45 somewhere, too. Extra tall sunset, somewhere approaching Tupelo on old US-78. […]
A New Orleans – and general south – trip from July of 2008. This is a glass cateye reflector sign. There are four of them, and they all date back to about 1936 when this bridge in New Orleans was opened. The Milky Way over partly cloudy skies. Lights from Shreveport are providing the orange glow. […]
The third day, in which we see much Texas. Cadillacs in the mist. The world-famous Cadillac Ranch, just east of Amarillo. […]
And here is the second day of the Route 66 trip. Same starting point – sunny Union County – this time even earlier in the dawn. Button copy in New Mexico is very hard to find. This example, on old US-66, might be the only one left in the state. What do we have here? Classic state-named US shields … put up sometime between September and November of 2009! In [...]
Pictures of a trip from November, 2009. Kevin Trinkle and I poked around some of Colorado before taking a trip through New Mexico, down to Route 66, and eastward to Texas. Here is the first day, and it involves no Route 66 whatsoever. Just Colorado and New Mexico. Here’s sunset on the first day, on Johnson Mesa – New Mexico state highway 72 just east of Raton. […]
