Photos from five-state Memorial Day weekend trip

[hbelkins]

Got my pictures uploaded, ahead of some older ones, because there's some good stuff in these albums.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/hbelkins/albums/72157719325169173

Day 1, includes some shots of the new US 35 construction in West Virginia

https://www.flickr.com/photos/hbelkins/albums/72157719325543773

Day 2, includes the new East Beckley Bypass; the new section of the Coalfields Expressway; the 2021 versions of the interesting Bluefield signage (some of the signs out near US 460 and SR 720 have been replaced since my last visit); and all the cutouts and other old signage still hanging on in Tazewell.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/hbelkins/albums/72157719338797497

Day 3, which includes the only two remaining cutout/old route marker assemblies in Big Stone Gap.

[wanderer2575]

What's with the heavy black border on some of these new WV state route shields?  I also saw it a few years ago along a new section of US-35.

[hbelkins]

Looking over pictures from five years ago, it seems a few of the cutout assemblies in Tazewell have been removed, including the one where westbound VA 61 turns onto Riverside Drive, and a few US 19/460 assemblies in downtown Tazewell. They're pictured in this album but not in the most recent one:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/hbelkins/albums/72157669720199354/page4

Bluefield pics from that same trip showing some of the signage that has since been replaced out near the SR 720/US 460 interchange (signed for VA 102 from US 460), and also a funky cutout VA 102 sign that's no longer there:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/hbelkins/albums/72157669719872194/page3