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Baja California, June 2011

A brief dash down to Baja California last weekend, made even briefer through mechanical difficulties. Ian B and I were going to drive down to San Quintin, spend the night, and drive back the next day. Since we were ahead of schedule, we decided to drive up to Sierra San Pedro Martir national park, which contains Picacho del Diablo, the highest mountain in Mexico. The mountain is 10157 feet, and [...]

By |2018-01-13T18:56:42-05:00June 22nd, 2012|Baja California, California, Interstate Highways|3 Comments

the last Reichsautobahn

Some photos from Germany and Poland, from November of last year. The road between Cottbus, Germany, and Legnica, Poland, numbered A15 in Germany and 18 in Poland, has some segments which have not been touched since the original construction in 1938! The German road. This was expanded to two carriageways in the 1990s, and at the same time received a lot of modernization. It can be driven at typical Autobahn [...]

By |2018-01-13T18:58:33-05:00June 7th, 2012|Germany, Poland|3 Comments

Alaska March 2012

We interrupt the last batch to bring you some surprisingly recent photos: Alaska, from last weekend! A three-day trip, landing in Anchorage, heading out to Fairbanks and Tok, and then back. Mt. McKinley at sunrise. Taken from about 2 miles south of Cantwell, so maybe 85 miles to the mountain itself. At about 8.30 in the morning, the mountain was completely clear, having not yet generated the cloud system it’s [...]

By |2018-01-13T19:02:33-05:00March 29th, 2012|Alaska, U. S. Highways|6 Comments

Indiana-Michigan Trip Day 5 (Jeffersonville, IN to Montgomery, AL)

Interstate 65 south at I-265, SR 62 and SR 162. Commenced the final day of this trip from Jeffersonville, Indiana, just outside of the Interstate 65, I-265, and Indiana 265 interchange. Avoiding the bulk of traffic along Interstate 65 into Louisville, we opted for I-265 west to I-64 and out of the Falls City area. The west end of Interstate 265 in Indiana. Currently [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:20:00-05:00December 27th, 2011|Indiana, Interstate Highways, Kentucky, Tennessee|2 Comments

Indiana-Michigan Trip Day 4 (Port Huron, MI to Indianapolis, IN)

Began the day on former U.S. 25 (Electric Avenue / Military Street) in Port Huron. U.S. 25 was decommissioned in Michigan in 1973, leaving former stretches of the road as M-125 (Ohio to just north of Monroe), M-3 (Downtown Detroit to Chesterfield Township), Business Loop I-94 (through Port Huron), and M-25 (north of Port Huron) along with portions of U.S. 24, I-75 and I-94. This view looks [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:20:00-05:00December 22nd, 2011|Highways, Indiana, Interstate Highways, Michigan|Comments Off on Indiana-Michigan Trip Day 4 (Port Huron, MI to Indianapolis, IN)

northern Canada Sept ’11 part III

And here is the rest of day 2 in Alberta and Northwest Territories… the sunset and the northern lights! Sunset, over one of Canada’s innumerable boreal forests. A pair of otters. If anyone wonders why I spend so much time between blog posts… it’s the sheer quantity of photos I have to process. I took about 200 just of these otters! (One came out.) Full moon, perched on top of [...]

By |2018-01-13T20:03:57-05:00December 5th, 2011|Alberta, Northwest Territories, Weather|4 Comments

Indiana-Michigan Trip Day 3 (Coldwater, MI to Port Huron, MI)

All of day 3 focuses on southern Michigan Interstates. Commenced the day in Coldwater and headed north to Lansing, then west to Grand Rapids and the St. Joseph area and east to Detroit and Port Huron. Very clear and cool day, highs in the low 50s with some northwesterly winds. This view looks at the southbound on-ramp to Interstate 69 from U.S. 12 west & Business Loop Interstate [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:20:02-05:00November 13th, 2011|Highways, Interstate Highways, Michigan, U. S. Highways|Comments Off on Indiana-Michigan Trip Day 3 (Coldwater, MI to Port Huron, MI)

Indiana-Michigan Trip Day 2 (Cincinnati, OH to Coldwater, MI)

Began the morning of day 2 just outside Cincinnati on a cloudy morning with the last remnants of cold front moving out. Decided to poke around downtown Cincinnati for an hour or so before heading westward along Interstate 74 to Champaign, Illinois. The trip would turn us north along Interstate 57 and east to Michigan later this day, and how far into Michigan we would make it depended upon how [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:20:17-05:00November 12th, 2011|Highways, Illinois, Indiana, Interstate Highways, Ohio, U. S. Highways|Comments Off on Indiana-Michigan Trip Day 2 (Cincinnati, OH to Coldwater, MI)
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