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.
Downtown Denver from I-25, as I go over to I-76 to start heading east |
Ideal exhibit of state-name I-76 shields just east of Brush, where 6 splits from 76 after Denver. |
Technically, it's Spur US 34 on the east end of Brush |
West end of US 138, the nation's longest (by time) orphaned child highway, in Sterling |
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The 2 miles of I-76 in Nebraska was my last piece for its interstates. |
"Last Days of the Buffalo", Julesburg CO |
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State line on US 138 |
Northeast corner of Colorado |
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Looking southwest into Colorado |
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East end of US 138 |
A very brief visit to Ash Hollow, revisited seven years later |
East end of US 26, Ogallala |
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Phelps County Courthouse and architecturally similar addition, Holdredge NE |
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On the Lincoln Highway, Grand Island |
NE 2 is technically two segments in the state. This is the east end of the segment that goes west and northwest to South Dakota. |
I-80 and US 81 meet in York (south of this photo, on US 34). |
Two highways that appear in Iowa intersect in Lincoln with interstates. |
At the time, I-80 was being six-laned in Lincoln |
Ten (or so) miles from the state line |
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First reference to Des Moines on eastbound I-80 |
Original US highway system, sketched out at Western Historic Trails Center, Council Bluffs |
Crossing on old US 275 bridge while new one is being constructed |