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<\/p>\nA decade ago, I took pictures from the front seat of the van on a couple of trips to Waterloo and Ames. Here’s one of them, taken months after IA 27 was first commissioned.<\/p>\n
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Although I used few or none of them, it was the beginning of a concentrated effort to document Iowa’s highways and what you see at their endpoints. (Yes, I know this is not an endpoint.) I started setting up the website a couple of weeks later and did a full launch in December.<\/p>\n
Ten years and many pixels later \u2014 the above photo didn’t need to be shrunk \u2014 I alternate between my third and fourth digital cameras and have upgraded computers twice. (However, my newest photo editing software doesn’t seem to be as smooth when scaling pictures.)<\/p>\n
As I tried to figure out the best way to mark the event, I also wondered if there was a way I could share some of the photos that otherwise would not appear on this site.<\/p>\n
That gave me the idea to set up a new series of timed blog posts. Starting today, and continuing every 12 or 24 hours afterward, a new photo will appear. The photos won’t be random; they’ll be sequential. The first one will include a shield with the number 1, the second will include a shield with a number 2, and so on. Almost immediately, I realized I couldn’t limit the series to Iowa, since Iowa hasn’t had an IA 11 for 70 years, so the entire country is open.<\/p>\n
I’m going to sort through my thousands of photos and find out just how far up I can go. I’ll also keep an eye on trying not to repeat dates or counties in the series until I have to.<\/p>\n
This also happens to be my 100th blog post. I hadn’t planned on this many by now, but Texas A&M and Missouri “realigned” that expectation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A decade ago, I took pictures from the front seat of the van on a couple of trips to Waterloo and Ames. Here’s one of them, taken months after IA 27 was first commissioned. Although I used few or none … Continue reading