A little departure today. It’s at a ferry dock, but I wanted to use this photo today for the obvious reasons.

I took this photo just before my class got on the ferry in Jersey City. After taking the ferry across the river and went up the World Trade Center. I was always interested in the WTC towers from when I was a kid, and am glad I was able to visit them at least once.

Of course, my own little experience pales in gravity to the events of ten years ago today. RIP to all the victims of that terrible tragedy.

Scan from print, photo taken November 1999

Nevada makes heavy use of reflectors for their lane markings. Which is certainly made possible when there’s an utter lack of snow.

Photo taken August 2010

Looking north along the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, approaching the MD-197 exit. The Parkway is a pleasure to drive- running through forested areas, with stone and wood guiderails and no transports. A definite pleasure compared to the parallel I-95, and more convenient when accessing DC from BWI Airport.

This photo also shows the unique signage along the Parkway, using unconventional fonts and a white-on-brown colour scheme. Certainly a unique road.

Photo taken

Change it up with a shot from downtown St. Louis (that’s Busch Stadium in the background). Odd to see multiple routes on one Interstate shield. Also apparently I-64 thinks it’s better than the rest of them.

Photo taken December 2010

Looking south along N. Michigan Av. from E. Erie St. in Chicago. This stretch comprises part of the Magnificent Mile, an area with that serves a hub for activity in Chicago.

Photo taken March 2010.

Comeback double post!

This is the then-unopened Colorado River Bridge that connects Arizona and Nevada, shot from the Hoover Dam. This massive bridge was opened last fall to let traffic on US-93 bypass the dam, which was a severe pinch point.

Photo taken August 2010

Lower Wacker Drive in Chicago. This is one of that city’s double-decker streets, in which the upper level has local accesses while the lower functions as an express route.

“If my estimations are correct, we should be very close to the Honorable Richard J. Daley Plaza.”

photo taken March 2010

Low streetlights due to the proximity of an airport runway on Mannheim Avenue/US-12 outside of O’Hare International Airport.

Photo taken March 2010

The then-unopened A-50 extension near Lachute, Quebec.

photo taken October 2008