Daily Picture Challenge!

[US71]

Since no other challenge has been posted yet.

May 12, 2018: State abbreviations that aren't the standard 2-letter postal abbreviation.

A lot of people like to add the second "L" in "ILLinois."  This is on US41 in Indiana.


IN-US41-I-74NN by Paul Drives, on Flickr

Back before the 2 Letter Postal Abbreviations, Ill was commonly used on lmailing addresses. Ark was Arkansas, Tenn was Tennessee, Mo was Missouri.

[TBKS1]

Since no other challenge has been posted yet.

May 12, 2018: State abbreviations that aren't the standard 2-letter postal abbreviation.

Um, today's the 14th. You're a couple days late...

I'll make up a challenge... although it's probably already been done before. I don't really care. lol

Challenge for May 14th: A BBS (Big Brown Sign) or anything similar containing any Nationally Protected Area.

Here's probably one of the only ones in the US that contains 2!



2 National Protected Areas in 1 sign by TheInstrumentalist, on Flickr

[US71]

[US 89]

May 14, 2018: A BBS (Big Brown Sign) or anything similar containing any Nationally Protected Area.

Timpanogos Cave National Monument:



Does a National Historic District count?

[7/8]

May 14, 2018: A BBS (Big Brown Sign) or anything similar containing any Nationally Protected Area.

I'm in Mountain Time, so it's still May 14th here.

Sign leaving Mt. Rushmore (in SD)


Welcome sign for Grand Teton N.P. heading south from Yellowstone (in WY)


Sign for Arches N.P. on US 191 in Moab, UT

[TBKS1]

A bit of an international challenge... I guess?

Challenge for May 16th: A city limit sign or direction referring to one of it's sister cities.

Here's what I have.



Fort Smith City Limit by TheInstrumentalist, on Flickr

[MCRoads]

May 17 ==> One lane roads/bridges/tunnels, and the controll devices (if any).

My example is just north of the Golden Gate,  under 101. I cannot remember the name of it.

[empirestate]

May 17 ==> One lane roads/bridges/tunnels, and the controll devices (if any).

My example is just north of the Golden Gate,  under 101. I cannot remember the name of it.

You forgot the photo of your example!

[MCRoads]

May 17 ==> One lane roads/bridges/tunnels, and the controll devices (if any).

My example is just north of the Golden Gate,  under 101. I cannot remember the name of it.

You forgot the photo of your example!

IDK how to link GSV on mobile....

[empirestate]

May 17 ==> One lane roads/bridges/tunnels, and the controll devices (if any).

My example is just north of the Golden Gate,  under 101. I cannot remember the name of it.

You forgot the photo of your example!

IDK how to link GSV on mobile....

It's been posted a couple times in this thread...search the topic for "gsv api" and it'll pop right up.

(If you can't get it to work for mobile, a screenshot is perfectly OK.)

[US71]

May 17 ==> One lane roads/bridges/tunnels, and the controll devices (if any).

White River Bridge
Beaver, AR


Old US 71
Saginaw, MO

[oscar]

May 17 ==> One lane roads/bridges/tunnels, and the controll devices (if any).

There are lots of one-lane roads out there, some one-lane bridges, and the occasional one-lane tunnel. Here's one of each.

The Whittier (AK) one-lane tunnel, with alternating phases for westbound cars/trucks, eastbound cars/trucks, and Alaska Railroad trains. This photo shows control devices at the east end, as well as an Alaska Railroad passenger train to the Whittier ferry dock emerging from the tunnel:



One of the three one-lane bridges crossing the Wainiha River, on highway 560 along the north shore of Hawaii's Kauai island (the bridge has more recently received steel reinforcements but still is one-lane):



Finally, mostly one-lane county route 340 (part of the Kahekili Highway) along the northwest Maui coast. There is a short stretch of highway with a center stripe, but most of it you're lucky to get edge stripes on one or both pavement edges (this is not a good highway for tourists to drive at night):

[formulanone]

May 17 ==> One lane roads/bridges/tunnels, and the control devices (if any).

Armstrong Redwoods outside Guerneville, CA:

[MNHighwayMan]

May 17, 2018: One lane roads/bridges/tunnels, and the control devices (if any).

One-lane bridge on US-136 over Muddy Creek east of Princeton, Missouri. I was surprised to learn that this kind of thing still existed on the US Route system.

[TBKS1]

May 17, 2018: One lane roads/bridges/tunnels, and the control devices (if any).

How about a 1 lane bridge in Jacksonville, Arkansas? This picture was taken about a month after all of the flooding here, and during that time, this bridge was completely underwater.

[Mapmikey]

May 17, 2018: One lane roads/bridges/tunnels, and the control devices (if any).

One-lane bridge on US-136 over Muddy Creek east of Princeton, Missouri. I was surprised to learn that this kind of thing still existed on the US Route system.

US 9W has one-lane underpasses at railroads...

[paulthemapguy]

May 18, 2018:  Post the names of streets or towns whose first two letters are the same.


cityOC by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[oscar]

May 18, 2018:  Post the names of streets or towns whose first two letters are the same.

This community name in the far outer reaches of northern Los Angeles County CA technically might not qualify, since "Llano" is a Spanish word, and in that language's alphabet "ll" is a separate character like "ch" and "ñ".



OTOH, this street name in Easton MD is probably not Spanish, so that technicality wouldn't apply.

[kphoger]

May 18, 2018:  Post the names of streets or towns whose first two letters are the same.

This community name in the far outer reaches of northern Los Angeles County CA technically might not qualify, since "Llano" is a Spanish word, and in that language's alphabet "ll" is a separate character like "ch" and "ñ".

Not since 2010.  The REA now excludes them as letters of the alphabet, and modern dictionaries reflect this change.

[formulanone]

May 18, 2018:  Post the names of streets or towns whose first two letters are the same.

I'm assuming that for the purposes of this challenge, Missouri's secondary routes don't count?

[hotdogPi]

Already done: December 22, 2017, page 124.

[kphoger]

Already done: December 22, 2017, page 124.

FYI...  For those of us who have our settings to where recent posts go to the top instead of the bottom, such a reference isn't all that useful.  I had to do a quick estimate in my head to figure out what page that worked out to be in my view of the thread.  I still ended up off by one page; I knew it would be in the low 40s.

[formulanone]

^ Or, just forget about it, relax, and/or post something related to the challenge. There's the chance some folks missed it the first time around, or have another photo to share.

(Insert overused animated smiley.)

[paulthemapguy]

Starting to care less and less about duplicity at this stage.  We've done hundreds of these.  Coming up with something original is more and more difficult.  Oh well.

[empirestate]

There is no rule regarding re-using previous Challenges.