This is a selection of photos from trips in April-May 2009. Please note that the comments under the photos will not appear when you click on the image to enlarge it (800x600). Apple-click to open in a new tab.
I needed to get to the 70/24 split in Colby to clinch I-70 in Kansas. |
Should be Business Loop 70, not I-70, in downtown Colby |
Buffalo Bill monument, US 83, Oakley |
No, it's not. (It is, however, the end of signed US 40 in Kansas until you get to Topeka.) |
On the standalone part of US 40 in far western Kansas. It might be interesting to do old 40 through the state sometime. |
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This is a neat museum, but given its location attendance is sparse. |
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That's one way to acknowledge history while building a new courthouse. |
Limon |
Byers |
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On the Colorado state map, US 40 is marked discontinuously between Denver and Limon, but it's co-signed with I-70 the whole way. Old US 36 west of Byers is signed as CO 36, but US 36 disappears completely until I-25. | ||
First thing in the morning: Tour don't-call-it-Mile-High-Stadium. |
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"You are looking at the world's entire supply of rose onyx." (visible at base) |
View of the mountains from Colorado's state capitol. |
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This was my first time driving on I-25, and my first time on I-25 at all since 1995. |
Junction of US 6/40 near Golden, on the west edge of the Denver metro. |
Add Denver to the list of cities I've experienced a traffic jam in. |
North end of I-225, the only 3di in Colorado |
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The ever-elusive Exit Zero! (West end of I-270) |