Daily Picture Challenge!

[paulthemapguy]

Okay, for today's Challenge, we're going to do another little sequence game involving the 50 states. This Challenge will remain open until the sequence is completed (regardless of date).

The rules are pretty simple:
–Post photos containing the name of each state, one at a time and in alphabetical order, spelled out in full on a sign (i.e., no abbreviations).
–The state name cannot be in direct reference to the state itself. Features named after or derived from the state are OK, just not the actual state–so, no "welcome" signs or state line signage. Features unrelated to the state are also good, such as "George Washington Bridge" or "Wyoming County".
–Include the next state alphabetically in your Challenge statement.

^Posting this so it appears on page 132, to make things easy.

So I suppose my folder of state welcome signs will be of no use here.  I have to get creative...

Anyone been to the Alaska Highway?  Also if anyone lives in a city with clusters of streets named after states, your street blade photos will prove very useful here.

List of states with rivers named analogously:

Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Wisconsin

[Jim]

I didn't initially post the Alaska Highway since it seems too much of a direct reference.  But since it appears that road names and even street signs are fair game, I'll do it.

January 19, 2018: Alaska.  Next up, Arizona.

Dawson Creek, British Columbia, at the start of the Alaska Highway.  June 11, 2001.

[empirestate]

So I suppose my folder of state welcome signs will be of no use here.  I have to get creative...

That was basically the idea...I figured many people have a collection of welcome signs, and I didn't want it to be too easy...

I didn't initially post the Alaska Highway since it seems too much of a direct reference.  But since it appears that road names and even street signs are fair game, I'll do it.

...but also not too difficult. So yeah, Alaska Highway totally works; after all, not every state has a highway named after it meeting its borders.

Hint: There is actually at least one case where you can use a state welcome sign for this Challenge, and it would be valid. But let's wait and see whether anybody grabs the opportunity.

[webny99]

Hint: There is actually at least one case where you can use a state welcome sign for this Challenge, and it would be valid. But let's wait and see whether anybody grabs the opportunity.

Are you thinking of a specific sign, or a specific state?
To my knowledge all welcome signs have the state name on them, so it must be a welcome sign that has another state's name on it for an unrelated reason.

[chays]

Hint: There is actually at least one case where you can use a state welcome sign for this Challenge, and it would be valid. But let's wait and see whether anybody grabs the opportunity.

Are you thinking of a specific sign, or a specific state?
To my knowledge all welcome signs have the state name on them, so it must be a welcome sign that has another state's name on it for an unrelated reason.

You are on the right track...

[hotdogPi]

January 21, 2018: Signs or photos with 3 or more different route numbers, the highest of which is less than twice the lowest.

This means that all three (or more) route numbers are relatively close together.

Ignore prefixes and suffixes; my 3-3A-4 photo would not be valid since it only has two distinct numbers (3 and 4).



alpsroads, since I don't have any qualifying photos in my collection. Connecticut.

Another qualifying sign (left sign, not whole photo), from the Route Number Difference Game thread:

From I-90 in Indiana.  July 16, 2007.

[Truvelo]

January 21, 2018: Signs or photos with 3 or more different route numbers, the highest of which is less than twice the lowest.

This one qualifies

[formulanone]

January 19, 2018: Alaska.  Next up, Arizona.

Arizona Street, in Lonsdale, Minnesota.


Not my photo, but this link from John A. Weeks III will probably spoil this challenge.
Click if you want more, or ignore (with all due respect to the photo's owner) if you'd like to find them yourself.

[AsphaltPlanet]

January 19, 2018: Arkansas, next up California.

http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/CO/CO/91/CO91_cl_ArkansasRiver_north_May15_24x16.jpg
Colorado Highway 91 near the Continental Divide

[US71]

January 21, 2018: Signs or photos with 3 or more different route numbers, the highest of which is less than twice the lowest.

Cairo, IL

[wanderer2575]

January 21, 2018: Signs or photos with 3 or more different route numbers, the highest of which is less than twice the lowest.

This one just squeezes under the bar:

[csw]

January 21, 2018: Signs or photos with 3 or more different route numbers, the highest of which is less than twice the lowest.

I-270 northbound at I-64 on the west side of St. Louis:

[US 89]

January 21, 2018: Signs or photos with 3 or more different route numbers, the highest of which is less than twice the lowest.

[Eth]

January 21, 2018: Signs or photos with 3 or more different route numbers, the highest of which is less than twice the lowest.

The one and only example in my collection that didn't have an ineligible fourth number intruding, in Fayetteville:

[US71]

January 19, 2018: California. Next: Colorado

California Trail in Nebraska

[paulthemapguy]

January 21, 2018: Signs or photos with 3 or more different route numbers, the highest of which is less than twice the lowest.

I really like this challenge!


IN-029-US24NA by Paul Drives, on Flickr

Here's a foursome in Wisconsin.


WI-US41-029 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

Savanna, IL


IL-064-084sw by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[Jim]

January 19, 2018: Colorado. Next:  Connecticut

Taking the embarrassingly obvious way on this one.  The Colorado River at its I-40 crossing from Arizona into California.  October 25, 2003.

[Jim]

January 21, 2018: Signs or photos with 3 or more different route numbers, the highest of which is less than twice the lowest.

I also like a creative and challenging challenge.

2 * 31 > 50.  Near Melvern, Kansas.  July 1, 2013.



2 * 240 > 324.  I-290 in the Buffalo area.  June 26, 2012.



2 * 15 > 29.  Warrenton, Virginia, area.  May 21, 2005.

[wanderer2575]

January 21, 2018: Signs or photos with 3 or more different route numbers, the highest of which is less than twice the lowest.

At the Ambassador Bridge in downtown Detroit, before the Ambassador Gateway reconstruction.  These signs are long gone:

[paulthemapguy]

January 22, 2018:  Any guide sign with a lowercase "j" on it.  It's harder than you think.  Stay within English-speaking countries if you can, to face the entire brunt of the challenge.
(By "guide sign" I mean the term as defined in the MUTCD.)

This is in Peotone, IL


bladeEL by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[Jim]

January 22, 2018:  Any guide sign with a lowercase "j" on it.  It's harder than you think.  Stay within English-speaking countries if you can, to face the entire brunt of the challenge.

I don't know the MUTCD definition of a "Guide Sign" but I assume these are at least in the spirit of the challenge.

Looks like I'm finding non-English words in English-speaking countries.

The Scajaquada Expressway from I-190 in Buffalo.  August 4, 2001.



Everyone enjoys the Maj Deegan Expwy here from I-95 in New York.  August 1, 2017.



Close to home, on I-90 in New York we have the Canajoharie exit.  September 16, 2006.

[AsphaltPlanet]

http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_400_images/400_dv_35_south_Jun14_24x16.jpg

[Truvelo]

Ajo AZ

[paulthemapguy]

I don't know the MUTCD definition of a "Guide Sign" but I assume these are at least in the spirit of the challenge.

You probably do.  It's basically any sign you typically find as green and white.  White text on blue and brown panels also count.  Anything that identifies a location or route, or leads people to a location or route.

[paulthemapguy]

January 23, 2018:  Post a picture of any signal head (mounted vertically), where the bottom section is an indication with a color other than green.

That parenthetical is to prevent smart-alecks from posting a horizontal signal head and saying "they're ALL at the bottom!"  I'm onto you   


IMG_1886 by Paul Drives, on Flickr