I spent the better part of the last 8 days traveling around the upper Gulf Coast in southern Alabama and northwest Florida. I drove much of U.S. 98 along the coast in northwest Florida and U.S. 90 parallel to Interstate 10 east of Crestview and again through Tallahassee. Also covered was just about every road in the lower third of Baldwin County, Alabama. The coloured U.S. highway shields in Panama [...]
I headed out to El Paso on Monday to attempt to get some updated photos and add to our coverage around the city. Key word was attempted - due to an extreme monsoonal flow, most of the photo opportunities were rained out. Greenout has come to Texas - all of the older exit numbers on US 54 were covered with Clearview greenout on both the Exit tab and the number [...]
I decided to take a break from my updates to U.S. 1 and the creation of Florida Keys guide to do a spot update on Upstate New York. So I created new guides for Interstate 590, the eastern half of the Outer Loop freeway at Rochester, New York, on North East Roads @ AARoads. Last year I had the opportunity to visit western New York on two occasions to visit [...]
As I slowly attack my backlog of photos, I've added some more pics from US 59 in Houston, as well as a roadmap from 1972. LoneStarRoads has not made it out to West Texas to see the 80 MPH Speed Limit (trust me, I want to). On IH-10, the 80 MPH speed limit applies from El Paso County (approximately mile 61) to Kerr County (approximately mile 520). On IH-20, the [...]
We've all heard of U.S. 50 in Nevada as the loneliest road in America (even though some might argue that certain other federal highways in Nevada -- such as U.S. 6 or U.S. 93 -- are more deserving of this title), and we all know that one of the busiest freeways in the country is Interstate 10/Santa Monica Freeway just west of downtown Los Angeles. However, did you know that [...]
I cull through the Delaware News Journal's online website almost every day looking for road related stories for the website and for my personal interest in my former state. One was posted today about Interstate 95 and its growing congestion and lack of money to upgrade the ailing interchange with Delaware 1 and the bottleneck at the Interstate 295 split. http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060709/NEWS/60709005/1006 The article just says the same thing that is [...]
I-15 in Arizona has been completely resigned. The changes noted: Exit 9 is now "Desert Springs" instead of Farm Road. An increase in the number of distance signs. There are at least 3 distance signs each way pointing to St. George, Cedar City and Salt Lake northbound - southbound to Cedar Pocket, Mesquite, and Las Vegas. The advance signs for Business Loop 15 in Mesquite on southbound I-15 are now [...]
Oklahoma is getting new state road signs, in anticipation of the state's centennial in 2007. At least in Southeastern Oklahoma this month, there are not too many of the new signs put up. Idabel, Antlers, Hugo, and Durant are all still using the old circle signs. For the few I found, they were signed by road rather than by intersection or area. That means, there are lots of signposts with [...]
My first trip through New Orleans in 2006 occurred in early January on a cross-country voyage along Interstate 10. I was quite stunned with the devastation that took place in the Big Easy (it looked as bad as it was portrayed in TV), but had little sunlight to work with as far as road photography went. So I returned to Southeast Louisiana on June 10th to redocument the freeways for [...]
After having traveled to Miami, Orlando, Key West, throughout Tampa Bay, to Northwest Florida several times, and all around the rest of Florida in 2006, Jacksonville was last on the list of places to document. The opportunity to drive to Jacksonville, Florida arose sooner than Justin and I thought as my brother in law was in the area for a week long visit. Coupling that with the Fourth of July [...]
