AP/Iowa City Press-Citizen report.
This may only apply to a certain subset of the post offices on The List and the four processing centers (Carroll, Cedar Rapids, Creston, and Waterloo). It’s already too late for some; the ICPC reports that Homestead’s post office has already closed.
July 1, 2007: North end of US 42 in downtown Cleveland. Also the former north end of US 21 and, thus, former location of the US 20/21 junction.
It’s no surprise whatsoever that Chelsea Clinton didn’t electrify broadcast journalism with her debut Monday night on NBC’s “Rock Center With Brian Williams,” because she has no experience in broadcast journalism. She didn’t cut her teeth with live coverage of strip-mall blazes in Sacramento. She never did weekend weather in Wichita Falls. She didn’t blow the lid off mail-order ham scams in Des Moines.
This probably falls in the category of “let’s pick Des Moines out of a hat to represent flyover country” lines. Sacramento, perhaps, is the odd choice, because it’s the 20th largest media market in the country.
June 3, 2009: Sarasota, Florida, at the south end of US 301. This is near my southernmost traveled point in the United States.
I posted a couple weeks ago about the Buckingham post office closing. I’m sure there are others in the state that have passed the study period and are going to be shut down, although I’ve read the USPS has said it won’t close any more this year.
But if you know about one that has closed in the past couple of months, after I put up the maps (linked in the sidebar), please let me know. E-mail is on the sidebar too.
December 27, 2009: North end of I-17 in Flagstaff, Arizona. I clinched I-17 twice in the first decade of the 21st century during trips for the Insight Bowl. I-40 doesn’t go to Los Angeles, but I-15 does and US 66 used to. AZ 89A connects to US 180 to the Grand Canyon in Flagstaff.
Albuquerque-Los Angeles is probably one of the farther-apart pairs of control cities on the interstate system. This is also the only way I’m going to get a mention of New Mexico in this photo collection.
August 9, 2007: North end of I-39 on the south side of Wausau, Wisconsin. The freeway continues northward as US 51 to Merrill and as an expressway all the way up to US 8. I clinched I-39 in 2009.
July 6, 2008: For a short time in 2000-01, this was the only state highway signed with an interstate. The shields are extra-large. This segment of IA 38 went straight from gravel to interstate in 1960.
August 8, 2010: This half-mile route running north from US 62 was my connecting route to touch Barry County, Missouri. I crossed the state line, turned around, and went to Pea Ridge National Military Park.
