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Author Archives: Jeff
Feb
08
Texas Day 7A: Goodbye to A&M
College Station, Texas, Jan. 29 — Even the children’s books have to be rewritten. In the gift shop for the Texas State History Museum in Austin, I noticed a book about a baby Longhorn who grows up to be Bevo. … Continue reading
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Feb
08
Photos by the numbers: 98
June 1, 2009: US 98/301 junction in Dade City, Florida. Despite having an even number, US 98 is signed north-south at least in the central part of the state. It’s east-west in the Panhandle but then turns diagonally though most … Continue reading
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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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