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About half-way from downtown to Dow's Lake you'll find this lovely rest area, complete with restrooms, changing booths, libations, and an outdoor wood fire. Note all the patrons at this moment are in skates...
FYI, the pink coat was toned down substantially by me. The original finished image was overwhelmed by it. (Maybe I should have just filled it in with blue...!)
I've been hanging on to this set of pictures for a while. Last year, while still living in California, I pulled of westbound Interstate 80 at the rest stop just north of Vallejo. From the highway, the view that the rest stop affords is not apparent. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the vistas. Many of the travelers and groups who had stopped there were also taking pictures… so I was not alone.
The sunlight was fading fast and I found myself wanting for a tripod. This shot focuses on the trellis or open woodwork that framed an area for visitors to stand beneath while taking in the view. Some of the attractions of the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, which is a 135 acre park, were highlighted by the low angle light . The San Pablo Bay as well as Mount Tam are prominent in the distance.
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Another shot of the new Rapunzel themed rest area in the Magic Kingdom. I recently downloaded the "Merge to 32 bit HDR" plug-in from Photomatix and used this image to give the plug-in a test run. I must say I prefer it over using Photomatix Pro. Having the base 32 bit Tiff file with no tonemapping applied is like having some super raw file. It responds just like a regular raw file in Lr, but with all the clean dynamic range you'd expect from an HDR image. From here on out I don't see myself using anything but the 32bit plug-in.
We had just pulled int rest stop along side the Hume Highway. I couldn't resist and had to get a photo of this truck.
Eggerts Crossing Road, Mercer County, Lawrenceville, NJ, USA, right off Rt. 206.
Goes well with "Something's Wrong" by Neal Fox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4hfh1RpGVY
Place for zoo visitors to sit and rest, also providing a vantage point to view the Okazaki Fountain on the Lake Biwa Canal. Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan.
The nation’s first Highway Travel Information center opened on May 4, 1935, on US-12 at New Buffalo, not far from here. Other states followed Michigan’s lead, and by 1985 there were 251 travel information centers across the nation. The New Buffalo center was built by the Michigan State Highway Department, now the Michigan Department of Transportation, to welcome motorists entering the state via US-12. It was relocated at this site with its more modern building, on April 6, 1972, after the I-94 Freeway was completed. Michigan’s state-wide travel information program, which began in 1935, includes staffed welcome centers and interpretive, promotional and informational displays at rest areas and roadside parks across the state.
Erected 1986 by Bureau of History, Michigan Department of State. (Marker Number L1256.)
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This was shot at dawn somewhere on Interstate 40 in eastern Arizona. My son and I had been driving all night in separate cars on our way from California to Illinois last November. We pulled over at a rest stop before dawn to try to get some shut-eye. Unable to sleep more than an hour sitting upright in a bucket seat, I managed to take shots of this beautiful sunrise before we hit the road again.
BTW -- it's official -- I'm no longer a Californian. I just got my Illinois drivers license and registered to vote here. Now, I'm learning to drive in the mud out here on the ranch. :D
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Signs at the rest area and welcome center parking lot, directing drivers to either I-40 West and Nashville or I-40 East and Knoxville.
Smith County, Tennessee
Saturday morning 4 June 2022
The tourist information rest stop in Wawa is a very nice place to stop and relax.
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I shot this evening shot on a long drive between Johor Bahru and Malacca, Malaysia. The colors in the sky were quite tranquil that evening.
Having left Texas in my rear view mirror, it seemed ironic that the rest area 60 miles east of Tuscon, Arizona--at which we stopped in order to play in the newly fallen snow--was named after nearby "Texas Canyon."
A view of the Flint Hills, as seen from the Bazaar Cattle Crossing/Scenic Overlook area off of I-35/Kansas Turnpike.
Chase County, Kansas
Sunday afternoon 2 September 2018
There are several miniature sculptures at the Ohio US-35 rest area.
They are each about one foot tall They appear to be human forms. This looks like a couple dancing.
They are really kind of cute, and I enjoy admiring them each time we stop at the rest area.
Another view of former US Navy 'Blue Angels' painted Grumman F9F-8 Cougar BuAerNo. 131205/1 superbly presented at the Bellview Rest Area, Pensacola, Florida
It was in 1955 that the team transitioned from the earlier F-9F Panther to these later swept-wing Cougars when based at NAS Corpus Christi, Texas
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Official hypocrisy here. They tell you to rest if tired but aren't going to provide anywhere to do it.
Irises are my favorite flower.
I was stunned when I saw these irises blooming at a Virginia rest area on I-81 in late November.
Kobuk enjoying a rest area just east of Dubuque.
Kobuk said, "Where do you want this peeing done?"
And Bob said, "Out on Highway 61."