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Author Archives: Jeff
Jan
07
Year in review: Up and down Door County
September 14, 2015: The north end of WI 42 brings you right to a ferry to Washington Island. It does not lead to the Ultimate Question. An unexpected four-day break offered me the chance to close some gaps in my … Continue reading
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Jan
06
Year in review: Clinching US 61 in Wisconsin (and Iowa, again)
June 18, 2015: US 61 still runs through Lancaster, Wisconsin, despite WI 129 being an obvious bypass route. Going through town is a less-straight alignment for 61. A roadgeek meeting in Madison plus a two-day summer trip offered chances to … Continue reading
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Jan
05
Year in review: Circumnavigating Iowa
When I looked at the towns in Iowa I had yet to visit, I noticed many of them were on the periphery of the state. Then, I noticed that my least-recently-visited counties were also on the periphery of the state. … Continue reading
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Jan
04
Construction progress reports
From the Gazette: “Highway 100 extension on schedule and budget” From the Sioux City Journal: “Highway 20 widening heads to finish line” Both of these projects are expected to be completed by the end of the decade, and the I-74 … Continue reading
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Dec
31
Ten years ago today: Dan McCarney’s last bowl game
December 31, 2005: A photo I didn’t use so long ago of a fan-made sign at the ISU-TCU Houston Bowl. Remember the chaos at the end of the Nebraska-Michigan Alamo Bowl? Remember when instant replay in college football wasn’t a thing? … Continue reading
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Dec
30
Des Moines represents ‘backwoods rubes’ in column
It’ll cost you $400 to eat at the Times Square Olive Garden on New Year’s Eve night. To those of us foolish enough to think income of $250,000 a year is nothing to sneeze at, forking over four Benjamins (before tax) for … Continue reading
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Dec
29
Year in review: Completion of US 20 in Illinois and Indiana
October 9, 2015: US 12/20/45 share the road for a while on Mannheim (not Steamroller) Road. In October I went after one of the more prominent missing segments in my highway travels: US 20 between Rockford and about Portage, Indiana. I … Continue reading
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Dec
29
Year in review: Every mile of every Iowa highway
With 2540 pages of new books to read, added to 1250 pages from last year, what better thing to do than make some year-end posts? On June 8, I completed a goal I had been building toward for more than … Continue reading
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Dec
28
In-depth guides to Route 66
August 4, 2010: Replica early cutout highway sign at the Chandler (OK) US 66 Interpretive Center. Traveling Route 66 is something every roadgeek (or at least those in the western half of the country) gets the urge to do. I … Continue reading
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Dec
25
Your present: Updates from 2014 added to pages
That and a $15 iTunes card will get you a dozen songs. October 22, 2014: Opening of the new US 34 bridge from Iowa to Nebraska. I finally put pictures from fall 2014 and especially the opening of new US … Continue reading
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