Millennium Highway photo updates

[hbelkins]

http://www.millenniumhwy.net/roadtrips.html

Tonight's update consists of photos from the "Fort-to-Port" meet in Ft. Wayne, Ind., and my trip there and back. Photos are from Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana.

[hbelkins]

Now available on the Millennium Highway Web site are 1,808 photographs from a four-day trip to Texas on New Year's weekend. Photos are from Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Missouri and Illinois.

One thing of interest might be the early-morning photographs on the second day of the trip. A heavy frost occurred the night prior, making a lot of the guide signs very dim and hard to read. The heavy frost compromised their reflectivity and thus their visibility. This is evidenced in the darkness of the reflective signs, even under flash illumination.

Enjoy these photographs, and remember that the Millennium Highway is and always will be a viatology-free zone.

http://www.millenniumhwy.net/roadtrips.html

[hbelkins]

http://www.millenniumhwy.net/roadtrips.html

Now in the process of being uploaded are photos from my county-collecting trip to Tennessee back in March. The uploads should be done by 1 p.m. EDT.

[hbelkins]

Announcing a huge update to the Millennium Highway roadtrip photo gallery.

Online now are photos from trips to the Akron/Canton, southeast Pennsylvania and Iowa meets, as well as a short trip to southwest Virginia and northeast Tennessee over the Independence Day weekend.

http://www.millenniumhwy.net/roadtrips.html for all the fun. And as always, the Millennium Highway is a viatology-free zone!

[Ian]

Cool photos! I especially like the ones from the SEPA road meet  .

[hbelkins]

I have added my photos from my recent trip to the Rochester, NY road meet to my site.

To reduce clutter on the main Roadtrips page, I have moved trips from previous years to a separate page.

I have also added something new to the site. I have an app for my iPhone and iPad called EveryTrail, which records GPS tracks and can upload them to the EveryTrail Web site. Links to trips I have recorded with EveryTrail are now included with the links to the photo pages.

As always, there is no viatology allowed on the Millennium Highway Web site. Enjoy!

http://www.millenniumhwy.net/roads.html
http://www.millenniumhwy.net/roadtrips.html

[agentsteel53]

As always, there is no viatology allowed on the Millennium Highway Web site. Enjoy!

what about ichthyology?

[Alex]

Have you ever stumbled across an Interstate 24 Kentucky shield in your travels?

[agentsteel53]

or any state-named 86?  there are two in Idaho and that's it, as far as I can tell.

[hbelkins]

I have never seen a state-name I-24 sign in Kentucky.

[hbelkins]

Photos (nearly 400 of them) from the recent Nashville meet trip, along with EveryTrail tracks of the route there and of the meet tour, are now available for your viewing pleasure at http://www.millenniumhwy.net/roadtrips.html.

[hbelkins]

Photos from Day 1 (11/11/10) of my trip to Springfield, Mass. are available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/hbelkins/sets/72157625772979050/with/5335850984/

[hbelkins]

I have posted my final photos of 2010 at the Millennium Highway. Included are photos of my trip to the Springfield, Mass. meet in November, the SWPA meet in December, and a number of various photos from around Kentucky.

These are hosted on Flickr, as I am going to try putting my photos there instead of on my server. I think I have most of the upload issues resolved.

I still have a few videos to produce before I can completely close the book on last year, but I think I have the photo portion wrapped up.

http://www.millenniumhwy.net/roads.html is the place to go.

[hbelkins]

Figured I'd better go ahead and get my photos from my March trip to New Jersey uploaded before I hit the road again next week.

http://www.millenniumhwy.net/roadtrips.html has the links to the newest Flickr pages and EveryTrail tracks.

Pics from Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, including a few shots from the Little Falls-area meet.

[hbelkins]

In May, I took a trip out to Lawrence, Kan., for the meet hosted by Richie Kennedy. Now available at the Millennium Highway website are photos and the EveryTrail GPS tracks of the trip.

http://www.millenniumhwy.net/roadtrips.html for the goodies.

[hbelkins]

Don't have the link off my Web site yet, but I uploaded a bunch of photos taken during the first six months of this year to Flickr. The vast majority are from Kentucky but there are also some from the Huntington, WV area and southern Ohio.

There are definitely some candidates for "The Worst of Road Signs" in this collection.

http://tinyurl.com/65yhryg (leads to the appropriate Flickr set...)

[hbelkins]

I've uploaded my photos from my trip to the Watertown meet last month, and am in the process of uploading photos from my trip yesterday through southern West Virginia (including the new King Coal Expressway section that opened in Mingo County, and the WV 10 expressway near Man).

I don't have any captions or information up yet on the photos, but i figure I can get to that later.

They're linked at http://www.millenniumhwy.net/roadtrips.html.

[hbelkins]

Where can you find more than 2,500 new photos (that's new photos, not nude photos, so get your mind out of the gutter) and a nice collection of a few dozen old photos, rescanned from the original 35mm film negatives?

At the Millennium Highway, that's where.

Now online for your enjoyment are photos from a November trip to Vermont (via WV, MD, PA, NY and a handful from NH as well) along with snaps taken over the past year in Kentucky and adjacent areas, as well as a couple of day trips.

I also have some scans of photos taken back in the late 1990s before the advent of digital cameras. Included are some sign goofs, older signage, some vintage Cincinnati button copy and other goodies.

This can all be accessed from the Millennium Highway roads (http://www.millenniumhwy.net/roads.html) page.

[seicer]

I miss the old, legible parkway signs: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hbelkins/6182644064/in/set-72157627627216365/

I was thinking about this a lot when driving in western Kentucky over the weekend. I could barely make out the parkway names, unless they were spelled out next to the shield, which was not often done. Try making out the Western Kentucky Parkway shield at 70 MPH! The situation became worse when the "BG" became the "Bluegrass Parkway" with a silly Kentucky logo slapped on, which reduced the font size and legibility, or when the face of Daniel Boone was replaced with the name of a senator. Or when a tree with a curve was replaced with smashed text.

I would like to see icons replace the current text based signs. The Western Kentucky could be a golden farm symbol, in a circle shield. The Mountain Parkway could be a tree with a curve (again), the Daniel Boone could be his face (as before), the Bluegrass could be a horse, the Audubon could be a cardinal...

[hbelkins]

Big update today. Now available are 4,263 new photos from 11 states and the District of Columbia.

Photos are from my trips to the Joliet, Dayton and Washington DC meets earlier this year, as well as a bunch of pics from around Kentucky and my recent county-collecting trip to the Carolinas and Georgia.

I also have EveryTrail GPS tracks for some of the trips, including the meet tours.

http://www.millenniumhwy.net/roadtrips.html

[cpzilliacus]

Big update today. Now available are 4,263 new photos from 11 states and the District of Columbia.

Photos are from my trips to the Joliet, Dayton and Washington DC meets earlier this year, as well as a bunch of pics from around Kentucky and my recent county-collecting trip to the Carolinas and Georgia.

I also have EveryTrail GPS tracks for some of the trips, including the meet tours.

http://www.millenniumhwy.net/roadtrips.html

H.B., I appreciate your images very much.  Thank you for sharing with the world.

[seicer]

Nice photos HB - but did you switch cameras? Some of them are very low resolution.

Where is SR 15X? http://www.flickr.com/photos/hbelkins/7887030816/in/set-72157631304126006

I like the newer signage - is Kentucky finally standardizing signs throughout the state, or switching to a central sign supplier? While their interstate signs are excellent, the US and state routes leave more to be desired. It's usually a hodpodge of varying sizes, fonts ... and central Kentucky tends to be the best in this regard.

[agentsteel53]

any old signs? 

[hbelkins]

I'm trying to get the hang of that new Kodak EasyShare I bought last year.

KY 15X is the business routing of KY 15 through Whitesburg. When a contractor did some work at the intersection and the nearby commercial entrances there last year, they put up the KY 15X signage.

Districts still have their own sign shops and manufacture their own route signage.

[hbelkins]

Since my first trip of the year is coming up next weekend, I figured I'd better get my old stuff updated.

Appearing on the Millennium Highway roadtrips page (http://www.millenniumhwy.net/roadtrips.html) now are links to:

• 1,382 photos from my trip to the Richmond, Va. meet
• 1,364 photos from my November trip to check out future I-22 and future I-69
• 1,020 photos from my trip to the Doylestown, Pa. meet
• 1,051 various photos from Kentucky and adjacent areas

Where appropriate, links to the EveryTrail tracks from these trips are also provided.

Appearing on the Millennium Highway roads page (http://www.millenniumhwy.net/roads.html) now are links to:

• 999 photos taken in 2000, "before the millennium"
• 484 photos taken in 2001, 2002 and 2003, "after the millennium"
• 245 photos from my June 2001 trip to Missouri and Arkansas, which I thought I had lost but recently found on a DVD I had burned but had misplaced

Hope everyone enjoys these pics. I'm already working on photos from this year, and with some meet trips planned in the next few months, my collection will continue to grow.