324 NEW photos/videos from TEXAS and other bip-o-licious states!

[bandit957]

Hey hey, ho ho, I have 324 amazing Roads Scholarin' photos and videos from last month's Big Bend trip!

And they're gonna rule! Most are from Texas, but they include other amazing states too, and there's even some views of Mexico from the Texas side of the border!

So - as I always say - peep, weep, and oggle-beep...

http://www.angelfire.com/yt2/lastword/roadpics/tx11a.html
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[msubulldog]

Why are there popups on Angel Fire?

[txstateends]

http://www.angelfire.com/yt2/lastword/roadpics/tx11a.html

Pic #18, ugh, those off-center numbers on the new US 59 and US 71 shields....

Pic #24, that definitely looks like US 259 near the Red River, rural, and boring!

http://www.angelfire.com/yt2/lastword/roadpics/tx11b.html

Pic #2, might be Bonham, but is definitely not Bailey.  Bailey is tiny and hasn't had any industry much less big water towers like this one.

Pic #4, the original courthouse was downtown (I should know, my parents got their divorce there), replaced by another one in the late 1970s just south of downtown, now replaced by this one too far from downtown.

Pic #8, you were in Allen at US 75/Bethany, looking through Plano, and most of the far buildings are in Richardson.

Pic #12, the main service roads are actually on the other side of both raised ramps.  This bridge/exit for Galatyn Pkwy. was a more recent insert between Renner Road and Campbell Road; I guess it was cheaper to do a separate in-between ramp for the bridge than to raise the whole service road to the level of the bridge.

Pic #14. the whatever-this-is, is HOV ramps splitting traffic going to I-635 WB from those remaining SB on US 75 (or wanting to go EB on I-635).  The HOV lane on US 75 doesn't continue south of I-635, so instead of a simple break in the flippy plastic pylons and a dashed line letting US 75 HOV traffic move over into the main left lane, they had to make a big ramp/flyover/merge thing.

Pic #22, several of the near buildings were pre-1980s but a few were built during the 1980s.  The nearest tall one toward the right was the last skyscraper built downtown in the late 1980s; since then, a new condo tower (construction seen in pic #18) is topping out now in the Arts District downtown (a cool $1 mil+++ for each, 42 stories to choose from!).

Pic #23, I'm not sure what started the renaming campaign, but it was a mess for a while; I think there were 3 different streets nominated.  The last one, old at-grade Central through downtown, was finally the one picked; the street runs right by the downtown Farmers Market area, so it might be fitting there more than the other 2 choices were.

Pic #26, you are correct sir, looking NW from I-35E.

http://www.angelfire.com/yt2/lastword/roadpics/tx11c.html

Pic #2, actually there were dinosaur footprints found in this area, so that was the start of Glen Rose's fascination with dinosaurs; they have 2 fake dinos there that were used in Sinclair Oil's NY World's Fair exhibit about dinosaurs.