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this series is the earlier part of today, heading south from Seattle after taking my daughter back home... this rest area is on the southbound side of I-5 just north of Vancouver. It was a beautiful day, with great variety! I am sure it will make yet another great slideshow when I am done...
Like all these, it is straight off the camera, no tweaking, taken with my little Canon Powershot A630.
My wife and I stopped at the Interstate 40 NC Welcome Center on our way home from Tennessee. It had been raining but stopped long enough for me to take a few pictures. The I-40 rest area/visitor's center is very scenic.
Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) 903114 ex- C&O 3114. Visitor Information Center at the rest area.
Google Map coordinates... 37.795271, -83.704683
At the northbound I-85 Davidson County Rest Area. It's actually two buildings, the one here features restrooms and information; then there was one behind me that had various vending machines.
I'm driving the U-Haul for my next door neighbor, they're moving to Myrtle Beach SC to live permanently in their fifth wheel camper.
The Iredell County I-77 Northbound Rest Area was opened in 1973. It can accommodate 40 cars, 11 cars with trailers and 18 trucks. The facility is slated to be closed by 2018.
Located in Dillon, SC, South of the Border is a Mexican-themed tourist attraction/rest stop/tourist trap that provides motorists with food, fireworks, an inn, and other forms of entertainment.
South of the Border was developed by Alan Schafer in 1950. He had founded South of the Border Depot, a beer stand, at the location in 1949 adjacent to Robeson County which was, at one time, one of many dry North Carolina counties. Business was steadily expanded with Mexican trinkets and numerous kitsch items imported from Mexico. The site itself also began to expand to include a cocktail lounge, gas station and souvenir shop and, in 1954, a motel. In 1962, South of the Border expanded into fireworks sales, potentially capitalizing on the fact fireworks were illegal in North Carolina. In 1964, it was announced that the route for Interstate 95 would pass right by South of the Border, with the facility being next to two exits and within view of the highway.[8] By the mid-1960s, South of the Border had expanded to include a barber shop, drug store, a variety store, a post office an outdoor go-kart track complete with other outdoor recreational facilities and the 104 feet (32 m) tall image of the mascot, Pedro.
Over the years, the billboards with messages some considered racist and offensive changed to become tamer but still funny. Schafer continued to deny his attraction was racist. In fact, he was known for hiring African-Americans, and even helping them to vote, and standing up to the Ku Klux Klan.
Initially, Schafer only employed sombreros and serapes to advertise South of the Border. Schafer went to Mexico because of his import business and came back with two men he hired as bellboys, who people began calling Pedro and Pancho. From there, the Pedro mascot developed. Schafer eventually created Pedro, to add to the exotic element and theme of the attraction. Pedro is an exaggerated, cartoon-like representation of a Mexican bandito. Pedro wears a sombrero, a poncho and a large mustache. Minstrel shows were still popular in Dillon County in the 1940s and 50s, at about the time Pedro was created and P. Nicole King argues Pedro embodies the way in which people exoticized Mexico or Mexicans at the time while also remaining intentionally campy. Pedro has likewise been referred to as culturally offensive, politically incorrect or racist. P. Nicole King described Pedro’s image as a “southern Jewish guy in brown face” that was perhaps made, partially, in Schafer's image. Schafer himself had previously dismissed criticism that Pedro is an unfair characterization of Mexicans arguing it’s a light-hearted joke. Today, all South of the Border employees, regardless of race, creed or color are referred to as Pedro.
From Wikipedia.com
My wife and I stopped at the Interstate 40 NC Welcome Center on our way home from Tennessee. It had been raining but stopped long enough for me to take a few pictures. The I-40 rest area/visitor's center is very scenic.
Curbing throughout the Custer Rest Area is in rough shape and in need of repair. Maintenance crews are addressing issues like these to improve the rest area. Until these repairs are complete, the Custer Rest Area remains closed to all travelers.
My favorite rest area structures:-) Located along I-5 near Weed, California. The rest areas were closed this trip however.
Parking lot lines are getting worn out at the Custer Rest Area and in need of being refreshed. Maintenance crews are working to clean these up and put down a new coat of paint to better designate parking spaces for travelers. Until further notice, the northbound and southbound Custer Rest Area along I-5 will be closed until these repairs are complete.
Sidewalks like this are very uneven and a trip hazard to travelers at this rest stop. Maintenance crews have the rest area closed while they fix issues like this.
The District 7 Valley Sign Crew in southwestern Oregon replace damaged signs at the Cabin Creek Safety Rest Area on southbound I-5.
Seen here is one of many uneven and broken sidewalks at the Custer Rest Area. Crews are working to repair these areas to make walking route safer for travelers stopping here. Until further notice, the northbound and southbound Custer Rest Area along I-5 will be closed to all travelers to allow for these types of repairs.
The new Southeast Wyoming Welcome Center is made of rammed earth and introduced travelers to green design
I am not quite done with the film I shot in Oregon, so I thought I would start with a small series of digital photos.
Dismal Nitch is located on the Megler, Wa side of the Columbia River. It was named by Lewis and Clarke and was one of their camp sites. Megler was a ferry landing and rail terminal that was built on pilings in the Columbia river. None of the buildings remain, but you can still see the pilings in Megler bay. This series of photos was taken from rest stop that occupies a thin strip of land between the highway and the Columbia River.
A red barn and silo attract motorists on Interstate 35 to the Top of Iowa Welcome Center at Exit 214 seven miles west of Northwood, Iowa, seen here on the rainy day of May 25, 2007.
It's been a really snowy winter up here in the frozen north, with the snow already piled up higher than we've seen in well over a decade, and we haven't crawled out of January yet. We've probably seen the worst of the bitter cold for the year, and with a little luck our highs will remain above 0F for the rest of the winter. I'm bettin' that we get a fair bit more snow before it's over, though, which means there's likely to be some nasty flooding come spring.
Sue and I had to drive to Fargo after the New Year for some car work, and we cancelled the trip several times on account of weather, but finally made it. Coming back we stopped at this rest area just past Moorhead, and I was struck by the "warmth" of the greeting on the sign :-).
And to think that humans have lived here for thousands of years, mostly without the benefit of indoor plumbing.
Wow.
Kniphofia Mango Popsicle - There are many orange, bell-shaped flowers forming a cone shape at the top of very tall, green stems. The very long, green leaves are spear shaped and arching. It was growing in a garden, near a building at a rest area along Interstate 81 in Virginia.
To see the entire plant follow the link below: