For those of you who follow the happenings with AASHTO, they are meeting on October 26, 2006 to review a handful of U.S. highway numbering changes, which is a regular occurrence for members on their committee. Of the items on the agenda are two pertaining to the state of Florida. The first is the elimination of U.S. 98 Alternate at Panama City Beach in Bay County on the panhandle. The [...]
We decided to head to Picnic Island in south Tampa today, but first I wanted to document the historic west end of U.S. 92 in Tampa today for Dale Sanderson. For a period of time, U.S. 92 traveled west to Tampa from Plant City and ended at U.S. 41 (Nebraska Avenue) via Hillsborough Avenue. The highway was then extended west to its present terminus in St. Petersburg (junction of Florida [...]
I spent the better part of the last 8 days traveling around the upper Gulf Coast in southern Alabama and northwest Florida. I drove much of U.S. 98 along the coast in northwest Florida and U.S. 90 parallel to Interstate 10 east of Crestview and again through Tallahassee. Also covered was just about every road in the lower third of Baldwin County, Alabama. The coloured U.S. highway shields in Panama [...]
After having traveled to Miami, Orlando, Key West, throughout Tampa Bay, to Northwest Florida several times, and all around the rest of Florida in 2006, Jacksonville was last on the list of places to document. The opportunity to drive to Jacksonville, Florida arose sooner than Justin and I thought as my brother in law was in the area for a week long visit. Coupling that with the Fourth of July [...]
