Interstate 235 and Interstate 280 have exit lists and photos now. The only remaining Iowa Interstate pages I need to update are now Interstate 380, Interstate 480, and Interstate 880. All other Iowa Interstate pages have full exit lists with photos!
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I realized that I took some more new shield images in 2023 for pages that I still have yet to update! So I have caught back up on those. The five routes with new shield images have new photos taken within the state of Illinois. The national route pages with new photos are:You'll notice that the shield thumbnails have been updated as well. If those get replaced, the context photo on the page for that route needs to get replaced as well. I lost track of doing that!
My next recourse is to update the 3-digit Interstate pages in Iowa with exit lists and photos. When touring around Iowa in February, I took some new sign photos not just of Iowa's Interstates, but of other highways included in my national collection of photos. I have updated the pages for the following highways, each with a new photo: Also, did I mention that US Route 169 now has a page? That's one fewer 3-digit US route (3du) that's missing from my collection! I think I have about 20 left to encounter in the wild (I have encountered every 2-digit US highway already).
Note that none of these new photos for the national-scale photos were taken in Iowa itself. They were taken in Minnesota, Missouri, or Nebraska. Sorry, Iowa, but I don't want to take photos in your state showing your route markers. Not until you figure out how to stop making your numerals so narrow for no valid reason! However, my US Route 18 photo still shows an example of an Iowa US highway sign, in a needlessly narrow font series (and obviously, you can see a route marker photo of every numbered highway in Iowa on my Iowa area of the website). Hi everyone! In the past week, I have added to the Iowa Interstate pages. Now, all of the two-digit Interstates in Iowa have full exit lists with photos of every guide sign to the exit. I will add exit lists and photos to the three-digit Interstates in Iowa soon.
Introducing a new giant branch of the website: ALL OF THE ROUTES IN OHIO! A new state of full coverage joins the website! I now have every numbered route found in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan and Ohio represented with its own webpage! Ohio was a massive undertaking, requiring over 570 new webpages! I have been working on this since early fall of last year!
CLICK THE RED OHIO SHAPE TO GO CHECK OUT OHIO!! I spent a long weekend with my wife in the Dubuque area last weekend. Everything went fine until Tuesday when my gastrointestinal system revolted against me, society, and everything. With no disrespect to Dubuque, I mean it literally when I say, Dubuque made me puke.
I am no longer violently ill, but I am still sick enough to want to stay home. I decided to stay home wanting proximity to a toilet, and that gave me a chance to catch up on editing the website. I am almost done with the new state's worth of content, and with the huge number of distinct numbered routes in this state, I've had to write about 570 new webpages. No other state has required more than 220. This new state, which probably won't be a surprise to anyone anymore, will have about 570 new webpages!! I need to finish the Interstate pages, and I will be ready for a launch. Note that these Interstate pages will not have full exit lists yet-- not until I take a couple trips to photograph all the exit signs. But they will be ready enough for me to show you the whole state's worth of new stuff. My goal is to launch the new branch of the site this weekend or next weekend. Speaking of full exit lists, I will be ready to add full exit lists to the Interstates in Iowa with the new photos I got earlier this month. That will be my next goal. So there are even more new things coming beyond the new state of content dropping very soon!! I know I was supposed to be working on the new branch of the site, but the weather last weekend allowed me to travel around and get some more photos! So I added some new photos to highways in Iowa, and there is a slew of new photos coming soon to the Iowa Interstate pages.
For now, you can check out new photos added for the following highways, and the shield images for these highways are updated on the Iowa menu page as well: The new and very large expansion of the site is still coming soon. I am about 93% complete-- 14/15ths, if you will! There is a bit of a delay, however, as the laptop I've been using to write the site refuses to charge. I'm ordering a new charging cable to try and fix the problem. The website is about to expand toward the east...And if the weather forecast looks nice for the upcoming weekend, those of you on the west end of my coverage area might see a nice surprise in the next couple of months as well. Stay tuned!
I apologize for the delay. The new portion of the site may have to wait until the middle or late end of February, rather than the early part of the month. Hi everyone. Work has been especially busy from mid-December to mid-January. I haven't been able to work on the website as much as I have wanted to. Even so, I am about 85% complete on the new portion on the site. I have probably spent more than 60 hours working on the new content. I have another 10-15 hours of work to do still before everything is complete. Get ready for lots of new information and lots of new photos coming sometime in February!
For the last two months, I have been working hard on developing a whole new gigantic branch of the website. I am now approaching the 75% completion mark! I'm forecasting a launch of the new branch of the website in about a month and a half. Maybe the cold winter will keep me indoors and plugging away at the website and I'll get it done sooner. Who knows how conditions will manifest! But I will do what I can to show you as soon as possible!
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