Trip Heartmann, VTC’s mascot for Virginia vacations visits the LOVE sign to generate buzz for the summer travel season and promote family-friendly travel.(Photo by Tom Saunders, VDOT)

Spent lots of time inside and outside the hospital during the long wait surrounding my son's surgery yesterday.

Troy Dover, John Halikowski and Butch Eley

At the Colorado State Welcome Center/Rest Area in Trinidad, Colorado.

John Halikowski

ADOT Director

Making a stop in Virginia. I need to actually go visit the state, again. All my photos of it are usually taken as a drive by.

Cikampek-Jakarta highway.

Dipendekkan cerita, berjaya juga me panjat tangki air yg tingginya empat tingkat bangunan. Pemandangan yg menakjubkan. Hijau di penuhi ladang kelapa sawit.

Brisbane Former Alignment.

The very first rest area heading north, on Gympie Rd (Old Highway One), accessed from Ellison Rd (opposite Webster Rd). Has a couple of covered benches and toilets and limited parking.

Jack, me, Chris Williams, and Jim, 1985 or 1986.

One of the things my wife, Becky, wanted to do on her birthday was hunt down as many remaining Tour de Lincoln bicycle statues around town as we could still find. There's a suprisingly large number of them still around, considering it's been 5 years since they first appeared in 2003.

For today's FGR theme, we had to take a picture with our mobile phone cameras. I had to play along if only to show off that 1) my phone's camera has a 10-second timer, and 2) since it can open to the side (for texting), it can balance on flat surfaces and take pictures better. =)

I took this in the Georgia welcome center on I-85 south, coming from South Carolina (obviously, since I live there lol). There's this big vase in the center of the building and that's what I set my phone on to take this picture.

HBM! :)

South Carolina, Smiling Faces. Beautiful Places. This motto has been around for a while now, so much so the sign is faded.

Rollei 35, Kodak Hawkeye ti2215, developed in Ilfosol 3

NO HUNGER GAMES

At this little rest area, there's a hidden waterfall in the picnic area. They don't really mention it on the signs for the rest area, it's only on one sign that's up the trail a ways. If you don't know there's a waterfall here, you'd probably never find it.

Relics from the past. Telephone booth feature no telephones, only a monument of what once was.

Picnic tables under a canopy of trees.

A rest area sculpture on Route 89 in Vermont.

There is a story to these sculptures, I just don't know it yet. Or know all of it. I found a picture of one of them online with this caption:

"One of 18 sculptures designed and fabricated during the International Sculpture Symposium held in Vermont in 1968 and 1971. Matching grant funding was provided by the National Endowment for the Arts."

From another source I learned the sculpture symposiums were organized by a much-loved and now deceased UVM professor. The sculptors came from all over the world, and the output was set at rest areas on Routes 89 and 91.

A typical North Carolina picnic shelter, located on the hill across from the rest area car parking lot.

With a secret star message in the center?

Trip Heartmann, VTC’s mascot for Virginia vacations visits the LOVE sign to generate buzz for the summer travel season and promote family-friendly travel.(Photo by Tom Saunders, VDOT)

Photo by Bruce Hull

ODOT Central Office

Currently in Florida helping my father set up his trailer to live in. He's back on the road and finally had a chance to go a place he can use his trailer.

Shelby Winkle and Lane McDonald at work.

The path etched out in the grass is for high water runoff from the interstate.

Skillfully carved into a rock at a rest area somewhere between Lamar and Campo, Colorado.