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Feb 07

Texas Day 6: Slowing down and speeding up

Houston, Texas, Jan. 28 — With some time on my hands, I had the chance to visit one San Antonio attraction I hadn’t done earlier in the week, the Tower of the Americas. Ironically for me, I was there too … Continue reading

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Feb 07

Photos by the numbers: 97

August 2001: California has its own style of mile markers, with county identifiers. This is US 97 at the Oregon border. I have traveled the entire length of US 97 in California.

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Feb 06

Texas Day 5C: The misplaced highway

San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 27 — I-35 turns pretty rural just 10 miles from the international border, but has some impressive interchanges at the loop north of the city and the Camino Colombia. The welcome center is at Exit 18, … Continue reading

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Feb 06

Texas Day 5B: South end of I-35

Laredo, Texas, Jan. 27 — It’s more than a thousand miles to Iowa. It’s 700 to Mexico City. It’s the end of January, and it’s 84 degrees. Here, at the doorstep to Mexico, Interstate Highway 35 finally rolls to a … Continue reading

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Feb 06

License plate countdown — YXZ

Polk County. Skipped the U’s and V’s again, apparently.

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Feb 06

Photos by the numbers: 96

April 20, 2008: North end of I-172 in no place in particular, Illinois. Functionally, I-172 is a big bypass of Quincy and connection for Quincy to points southwest and southeast, but now it works for the northeast as well with … Continue reading

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Feb 05

Texas Day 5A: Southwestward ho

Or: Two counties named Jim Or: So that’s what 70 mph on a two-lane is like San Antonio (via Corpus Christi et al.), Texas, Jan. 27 — I started in the Corpus Christi area by driving back across the bay … Continue reading

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Feb 05

Photos by the numbers: 95

August 2002: Our vacation to Canada that year took us just inside the Maine border, to get that state checked off our lists. Nevada, North Dakota, Maine. Quite a set, isn’t it?

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Feb 04

Texas Day 4: Remember the Alamo? They won’t let you forget it

Corpus Christi, Texas, Jan. 26 — Texans take an inordinate amount of pride in the shape of their state. It’s everywhere. (See, for example, the shield in the previous Texas post.) Today, that spirit manifested itself in the Texas-shaped waffles … Continue reading

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Feb 04

Photos by the numbers: 94

May 11, 2007: West of Mandan, North Dakota, a very long Business Loop 94 leaves old US 10 to return to the interstate. Just north of here is my westernmost point traveled on I-94, a segment that extends all the … Continue reading

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