Wisconsin and friends
I’ve decided to go with this batch of wintry goodness: a November, 2008 trip to Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. It was a dark and snowy night… Don’t eat the orange snow. Distant municipal lights...
View ArticleGreat River Road tour – Quad Cities to Dubuque
Took an afternoon drive from the Quad Cities up to Dubuque and back utilizing portions of the Great River Road system. U.S. 30 joins U.S. 61's freeway briefly at DeWitt, Iowa. The exit numbering of the...
View ArticleQC Trip – Day 1 (Rockford, Chicago, Bloomington, Lincoln).
Started out the day being greeted by this VMS with the message "I-80 EB Closed at Mississippi River". Had to turn around and trudge southward along the real I-74 eastbound, which was equally under...
View ArticleCheeseheads
The Green Bay Packers will be playing in Superbowl XLV this weekend, and I thought a fitting tribute would be a photo of Green Bay's most famous roadgeek sight - the northern end of I-43. Photo taken...
View ArticleRoy Reed’s Gas Bash – April 2011
at long last, I am back, with some photos for everyone … highway signs which showed up at Roy Reed’s gas and oil collectible swap meet, and then some scenery from the subsequent days, when I found I...
View ArticleObservations from the road: Chicago to Minneapolis via I-94
The first of a 4,700 mile eight-day tour of the Upper Midwest and Great Plains kicked off from Chicago, taking us north to Milwaukee and west to Madison, Wisconsin Dells, Eau Claire and St. Paul,...
View ArticleObservations from the road: Duluth, Superior
Concluding our run around Minneapolis St-Paul, we met up with long time contributor and administrator of the Facebook Page Minnesconsin Highways, Patrick Lilja. Pat accompanied us northward from Mounds...
View ArticleObservations from the road: Minnesota-Wisconsin Loop
Continuing our week-long travels through the Upper Midwest, day three consisted of a loop from the Minneapolis/St. Paul area south on Interstate 35 to Albert Lea, across I-90 to La Crosse and Portage,...
View ArticleUpdates and Road News for the week of January 18
While a blizzard dumps one to two feet snow on the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, here's a look at some of the updates at AARoads this week. Contributor Peter Johnson sent in some photos he took this week...
View ArticleUpdates and Road News for the week of February 1
This week we finished adding photos taken last month in Upstate South Carolina and moved on from there to additional material sent in from Peter in the Green Bay area. Carter shot some of U.S. 123...
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