Interstate Highways

Alaska Highway VII

the last Alaska Highway batch, which contains no actual Alaska Highway – and, in fact, very little Canada. We had about 24 hours before we needed to be at the airport, so we spent some time exploring eastern Washington, Idaho, and even a little bit of Montana. What do we have here? An original I-90 trailblazer, complete with green sign back. We found a few of these in Spokane, and [...]

QC Trip – Day 2 (I-74, I-72, I-172, etc.).

Brent drove from Chicago west to QC and met up for a joint trip southeast to Champaign. A quick cold front blew through the morning of, washing out most of the ride west. This view shows that construction along Interstate 88 (East-West Tollway) is finally complete! If you drove through in 2008, you noted jersey barriers everywhere and your eyes bled orange. The Illinois Tollway is slowly [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:20:25-05:00May 17th, 2010|Illinois, Interstate Highways, Iowa, Missouri, U. S. Highways|Comments Off on QC Trip – Day 2 (I-74, I-72, I-172, etc.).

QC Trip – Day 1 (Rockford, Chicago, Bloomington, Lincoln).

Started out the day being greeted by this VMS with the message "I-80 EB Closed at Mississippi River". Had to turn around and trudge southward along the real I-74 eastbound, which was equally under construction for an ARRA based resurfacing project. A routine inspection revealed damage to a faulty floor beam and currently only one lane of westbound traffic is permitted to use the bridge due to [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:20:26-05:00May 11th, 2010|Illinois, Interstate Highways, Iowa, U. S. Highways, Wisconsin|1 Comment

Alaska Highway I

Photos from the Alaska highway! Okay, well, first photos from flying to Seattle, and then driving to Dawson Creek, where the Alaska Highway begins. Some photos in this post brought to you by Daniel Brim. We have an equitable arrangement: he provides talent at taking photographs, I run us off the road only occasionally. Somewhere over the Rockies. Between Denver and Seattle for sure. And here’s the northern lights! Just [...]

New Orleans II

Second batch from July of 2008, featuring mainly US-82 and US-78 in Arkansas and Mississippi. Along US-82 in southwest Arkansas is a wild animal farm. Here is a half-horse half-zebra creature. Some of the last cutouts in Mississippi. There is a US-45 somewhere, too. Extra tall sunset, somewhere approaching Tupelo on old US-78. […]

By |2018-01-17T14:17:03-05:00April 25th, 2010|Arkansas, Interstate Highways, Mississippi, U. S. Highways|9 Comments

New Orleans I

A New Orleans – and general south – trip from July of 2008. This is a glass cateye reflector sign. There are four of them, and they all date back to about 1936 when this bridge in New Orleans was opened. The Milky Way over partly cloudy skies. Lights from Shreveport are providing the orange glow. […]

By |2018-01-17T14:17:25-05:00April 18th, 2010|Arkansas, Interstate Highways, Louisiana, U. S. Highways|5 Comments
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