Category Archives: Sequences

Dec 07

Photos by the numbers: 35

December 25, 2001: Entering Texas on Christmas Day. But I-35 in Texas is long, containing nearly a third of its entire route. The visitors center where this was photographed is closer to downtown Kansas City than I-35’s south end in … Continue reading

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Dec 06

Photos by the numbers: 34

June 1, 2002: One of two Business US 34 shields on the route in Chariton. Despite being around for 50 years, Business 34 is nearly unmarked and unknown. Its official route uses IA 14 down to 34 instead of continuing … Continue reading

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Dec 05

Photos by the numbers: 33

July 1, 2007: Rochester, N.Y. For a while there, I wasn’t sure I had any 33 shields in my photo collection at all. IA 33 was replaced by IA 60 in 1969. I have traveled on less than a mile … Continue reading

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Dec 04

Photos by the numbers: 32

September 2, 2008: North end of IA 32, the only new (signed) designation created in Iowa in the 1990s.

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Dec 03

Photos by the numbers: 31

June 14, 2004: North end of IA 31. This is the first duplicate day I’ve had in this list. (This picture’s quality suffers from both the original camera and the scaling.)

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Dec 02

Photos by the numbers: 30 (bonus)

July 2, 2009: East Canton, Ohio. I have traveled on US 30 in nine of its eleven states, have pictures in eight, clinched it in two (Iowa and West Virginia), and almost clinched it in two more (Illinois and Indiana). … Continue reading

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Dec 02

Photos by the numbers: 29 and 30

July 29, 2007: Intersection of I-29 and US 30 in Missouri Valley. The (until recently) quintessential Iowa interchange sign arrangement. Notice the difference in the straight arrow lengths and the Butt-Ugly Kansas-Style Signage (larger initial letter).

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Dec 01

Photos by the numbers: 28

July 21, 2009: South end of IA 28, as RAGBRAI went into Martensdale on the way from Greenfield to Indianola.

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Nov 30

Photos by the numbers: 27

August 15, 2005 / May 12, 2008: On US 34 approaching Mount Pleasant from the east, before and after the bypass north and west of Mount Pleasant opened. This is the fourth IA 27 in state history, and only the … Continue reading

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Nov 29

Photos by the numbers: 26

May 8, 2009: East end of US 26 in Ogallala, Nebraska. As Dale Sanderson says, “There aren’t many US highways with eastern ends that far west!” Much of US 26 follows Oregon Trail pathways; to the west of here, there … Continue reading

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