While I go on a road trip of somewhat large size, here is your chance to see some photos from grim, frostbitten Norway. I took this week-long trip in March, 2008, and will be posting the photos in about seven installments in the upcoming few weeks. This is just a teaser … three photos from that week. The northern lights over the town of Nordkjosbotn, from the second day of [...]
While not on the road for weeks on end, I put together this little flash application ... *unfortunately, it looks like I cannot embed flash directly into a Wordpress blog (if anyone knows how, drop me a line!) so here is a link to https://www.aaroads.com/shields/generator.php where it lives on its own page. have fun with it; and let me know if you find any bugs. I've only tested it on [...]
Yesterday we completed the merge of all guides formerly on rockymountainroads.com onto AARoads. During this we restructured the directories, and linked most guides to one another for continuity purposes. This is part of our overall goal to restructure the entire AARoads site, and the movement of westcoastroads.com material onto the main site is next.
the best of Union County’s thunderstorm season (second half, which is when I got here!), and a couple odds and ends. Taken throughout September and October of 2009. Lightning just after sunset, and my favorite picture of the season. It was dark enough that I needed only moderately quick reflexes to try to catch a lightning bolt, as the exposure lengths were approaching 1/8 second (this one was 3/16 I [...]
sale, sale, sale! I've got this Arizona US 89 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270483247930&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT) on eBay right now. and am putting in an order for shields in general. Email me at shields@aaroads.com with your request - any state, any number.
it's my blog and I'll post random photos if I want to! two from sunset, tonight here in northeastern New Mexico. some sign-oriented photos soon ... going to be making a small trip this weekend with fellow AARoads contributor Kevin Trinkle; hopefully some good New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas photos will result from that.
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Hooray, new route markers. DFW's tolling authority, the NTTA, is replacing all of their signs - which are now unique to each route - with a standardized version. The Dallas North Tollway's familiar round green shields are about 30% gone; the George Bush Turnpike's old signs are over 60% replaced, and the newly christened Sam Rayburn Tollway (SH 121) has about 25% of its signs in the new style. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3380/3523867876_2242837beb_b.jpg [...]
It's that time of year again to go through the Rand McNally road atlas to see what has been added/updated/deleted over the past year. I recently had a chance to glimpse the latest edition and noticed the following updates and additions from last year’s print: Alabama: U.S. 78 (Future Interstate 22) is now complete to east of Graysville with the rest to Interstate 65 showing as under construction. Florida: the [...]
Jeff Royston passed along a photo from Oklahoma City showing that Oklahoma now is using Clearview font on its signs. The state joins a growing number of jurisdictions that are implementing the new font throughout their highway signs. This led me again to ponder the question of which states are using it and which are not. To address the issue, we have created a guide to catalog each state and [...]