If you have been following the updates over the last month at southeastroads.com, you will have noticed that I've shifted my focus to the Interstate 4 corridor and greater Orlando. With the Keys pages completed, I wanted to shift my focus back to the Northeast, but in the process with a project at work, I was drawn to the Orlando area and noted that our Interstate 4 guides were vastly [...]
Let's enjoy the last day of daylight saving time and take advantage of the 6:48 sunset. On the agenda, the elevated Express lanes of the Tampa Crosstown Expressway (Florida Toll 618), Brandon, and whatever else catches our desire. The drive begins with a pass through the Florida 60 (Memorial Highway) and Florida 616 (Spruce Street) construction project. Underway is the upgrading of the current substandard interchange serving Tampa [...]
A new stretch of freeway opened in northern Mississippi this month, and much to our surprise, it's signed as Interstate 69! Interstate 69 presently travels between Indianapolis, Indiana and Port Huron, Michigan. The highway has been that way for years, but since the late 1990s, a proposal to extend the freeway south to Laredo, Texas slowly works toward fruition. Some states are taking a lead in the process, while others [...]
US 1 through the Florida Keys, from Key West to Homestead, FL is one of America's great drives - and now its covered extensively on AAroads. Alex and I went down there in March and May of this year and took a ton of photos. Check them out, on the Florida Keys pages.
For those of you who follow the happenings with AASHTO, they are meeting on October 26, 2006 to review a handful of U.S. highway numbering changes, which is a regular occurrence for members on their committee. Of the items on the agenda are two pertaining to the state of Florida. The first is the elimination of U.S. 98 Alternate at Panama City Beach in Bay County on the panhandle. The [...]
Day 5 was probably the shortest with regards to roadding in the Northwest, but nonetheless full with the things that we did see. The main goal of the day was to drive Interstate 5 northward to the International Border and be back in time for dinner. From Burien we pretty much took Interstate 5 up and back, with a couple of side detours thrown in for good measure. As mentioned previously, [...]
After two marathon days of driving, we got together with Chris and tooled around the Seattle and Tacoma area during day 4, and then rendezvous with Andy's cousins in Burien. The day started off with some typical Seattle weather, even with it being late August. A rainy mist converted into light rain and then a solid sheet of rain as we ate breakfast at a local diner in Shoreline, Washington. [...]
Started the morning in the quaint town of Cascade Locks, just a stone's throw away from the Bridge of the Gods. The bridge is tolled and privately run, joining U.S. 30 in Oregon with Washington 14 just west of Stevenson. Stevenson is an equally quaint town along the north banks of the Columbia River. Washington 14 (former U.S. 830) and U.S. 30/Interstate 84 are both also paralleled by busy Union [...]
After just five or six hours of sleep, we began our day in Corvallis traveling through downtown looking to photograph a sign we saw the night before. The sign in question still showed Oregon 99W as U.S. 99W, a designation long since retired. From there we opted for Oregon 99W west northward to Salem in lieu of Interstate 5 as an alternate. The routing also allowed us to visit two [...]
Day 1 - Portland to Vancouver, Vancouver to Eugene and Corvallis My flight took me to Albuquerque, New Mexico as the stopover point, my first time there, and from there northwest to Portland International Airport. Coming in over the virtual desert of southeastern Oregon, the air thickened with smoke due to area wild fires and stagnant air from very hot weather. The peaks of Mt. Hood and Mt. Adams peaked [...]
