{"id":4938,"date":"2010-08-31T22:36:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T02:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/?p=862"},"modified":"2018-01-17T09:31:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T14:31:20","slug":"rocky-mountains-dec-07-part-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/rocky-mountains-dec-07-part-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Mountains Dec ’07 part IV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are photos from Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska. I woke up in Wyoming after being awake for 80+ hours, experiencing near-total biological failure and thus getting a lease on a $26 motel room and my continued sanity.<\/p>\n

I headed south to visit my friend Brian, then was about to turn back west to take photos of the Rockies… before noting that a Snowstorm of Usual Occurrence was blowing through and it would be at least two days before the roads were somewhat less than total failure. Thus, it became a frolic through the farmlands for a few days.<\/p>\n

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\n A wintry evening in Colorado.<\/p>\n

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\n Foggy night in farmland Kansas.<\/p>\n

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\n Hey look, an old sign. I happened upon this one in the middle of the night, and got the long-exposure shot out in the middle of the frosted fields.<\/p>\n

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\n Big green Sinclair dinosaur. Somewhere in Wyoming – wherever I spent the night, plus another sixty miles or so south on I-25.<\/p>\n

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\n Winter trees in Wyoming.<\/p>\n

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\n Interstate 25, plowed adequately.<\/p>\n

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\n Old signs. Wyoming does a good job of adhering to early standards for interstate shields, but their sign replacement policy is frequent and brutal – so this gantry from 1990 counts as old.<\/p>\n

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\n Somewhere in Denver, near to where Brian lives, some excellent clouds appeared.<\/p>\n

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\n Clouds straight overhead.<\/p>\n

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\n Iridescent clouds over US-36. Yes, if the ice crystals line up just right, they really do glow in rainbow colors like that! I barely got this photo while navigating the curves of the road – ten seconds later, the effect was gone.<\/p>\n

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\n Just past dusk. Here is where I realize there is a storm to the west, and crossing the Rockies would be a dubious proposition. Time to head east.<\/p>\n

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\n Someone’s tree, illuminated blue well after dusk.<\/p>\n

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\n A popular color.<\/p>\n

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\n Wreath and lamp post. I don’t remember which town on US-24 in eastern Colorado this is, but I think this photo randomly came out well.<\/p>\n

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\n There something wrong is the order with words of the sign this on.<\/p>\n

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\n In Kansas now. We see here the tree types of highway markers that Kansas uses – including both their regular (left) and slightly odd (right) takes on interstate shields.<\/p>\n

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\n Moon halos in the fog.<\/p>\n

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\n They are not particularly old, but those are indeed black<\/i> guide signs for US-24 and K-25 in Colby.<\/p>\n

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\n Alas, I completely biffed this photo of what might have been the last photo of a Business Loop shield in Kansas. 1958 spec, no less. Why did I do so badly on this shot? Because the sheriff was busy escorting me out of town, having caught scent of me doing far too many U-turns near the black guide signs.<\/p>\n

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\n Not really. US-40 continues all the way to Park City, Utah. It just happens to meet up with I-70 here and is only sporadically signed until just west of Denver. But it hasn’t ended.<\/p>\n

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\n This speed limit sign has seen better days: like, when all of its friends and neighbors were embossed too.<\/p>\n

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\n A small town in Nebraska. We just crossed over on US-83 from Kansas.<\/p>\n

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\n Some trees. The background is illuminated by sodium streetlights in the fog.<\/p>\n

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\n And we’ve reached the freeway.<\/p>\n

This is where we leave off, as we spend the next day scouring interstate 80 in Nebraska for old signs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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