I would be one nervous wreck to have a Camaro this nice on a car hauler. They may have a great safety record but I am still entitled to worry.

For any kind of petrolhead, the service areas are without doubt the most amazing thing about taking the expressways in Japan. Whether it was bikes, classic Japanese sportscars, supercars, or even American lowriders, it seemed as if there was always one kind of enthusiast group or another spending part of their Saturday or Sunday taking a coffee break and congregating in a service area before returning to the highway and enjoying their passions together.

This Ferrari F430 owner was really smiling when I told my friend Shogo how cool the number plate was. Taken somewhere in Shizuoka-ken between Hamamatsu-shi and Fujisan on the Tomei Expressway. October 28, 2007.

At the Caney Fork River

On the road home at last.

The District 7 Valley Sign Crew in southwestern Oregon replace damaged signs at the Cabin Creek Safety Rest Area on southbound I-5.

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Die weltweit erste im 'Spannbettverfahren' gebaute Brücke (1938) steht als Denkmal auf der Raststätte Vellern an der A2.

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.

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Entering Texas on Interstate 20 from Shreveport, Louisiana

The District 7 Valley Sign Crew in southwestern Oregon replace damaged signs at the Cabin Creek Safety Rest Area on southbound I-5.

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I stopped at a rest area just as the sun was going up and a trucking couple was there with this rig, hauling jet engines. Their company specializes it getting jet engines to airports quickly so that the planes can keep flying.

Seen on the back of a road sign at the rest area.

We stopped at a rest area on I-40 just a little ways east of Flagstaff, AZ which had formations like this scattered all around.

Telstar at rest area on Stuart Highway, March 1984, coming back to Alice Springs from Ayer's Rock

YUM!

Rest area for baby & kids

ぬくもりの感じられる看板が印象的でした。

As opposed to impure Michigan? Tainted michigan? Michigan rendered ritually unclean by interaction with other states? Wasn't made clear.

Since money was an issue on my road trip, I'd decided to spend most of my nights sleeping in my car instead of hotels. I cleared out half of my trunk, folded down the seats, and laid down with my pillow. It was uncomfortable, but not as uncomfortable as I had expected it would be?

In the morning, I headed into Grand Rapids to visit their art museum and Goodwill Outlet (where I bought a fluffy thing to make the back of my car a bit less uncomfortable). I also tried to set up a photoshoot, which was unsuccessful in that super annoying way that it seemed like it might happen all day and prevented me from leaving Grand Rapids until like 9pm when otherwise I'd have been out of there around noon. Blah.

Also, it was super rainy for a lot of the day, so more blah.

Overall, least fun day of the trip. I did, however, score a crappy film camera and some crappy film and had some fun taking pictures with that during the bits where it wasn't raining.

Lewiston, Minnesota

Eden running through tall grass at a New Jersey Turnpike rest area.

I'm guessing this is a new bench at the North Carolina welcome center along I-85 north (towards Charlotte). I don't recall it being there the last time I was there. HBM!

Rest stop outside of Santa Fe, NM.

Decent budget race car on a transporter at an I-40 rest area.

The District 7 Valley Sign Crew in southwestern Oregon replace damaged signs at the Cabin Creek Safety Rest Area on southbound I-5.

Subcontractor for Adroit Construction excavate foundation for new rest area building_July 5, 2018