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Thursday, September 24, 2015

West.... To Topeka, Kansas





Eric points out the different
layers of blacktop that are
put down during a
paving job.






I love road construction.  It is one of the "fields of fascination" I have become engaged in over the years.





A tractor trailer & car
accident backs up
traffic heading east.




The Mississippi River

Traffic is backed up as
far as the eye can see.










We're back in




The Welcome to
St. Louis sign











Today's post has a lot of signs...






Cigarettes, Beer,
Liquor & Wine



They're here...
Are You Ready?

National Geographic
presents ROBOTS.




Out here
There's No Law of
Gravity.





Three lanes go west.

Three lanes go east....





is running for Governor.

Les is More






Refuting Evolution








This truck is HUGE.














This billboard is part of an Art Show on Interstate 70.  I love it!






That's a really big











This is a great car
insurance ad.






used to compact soil.

When the soil is firm enough,
the machine rolls up onto
it's protruding "feet."





Eric worked for the New York State Department of Transportation for 31 years.  He is my construction equipment adviser for the blog.





It is part of the Art Show


















This Rick Ball billboard
has headlights. 









Kansas has a very pretty
state sign.





The state road signs in
Kansas are Sunflowers.





Lecompton was the Capital
 of the Kansas Territory.







After years of bloody fighting over the question of slave holding, Kansas was admitted to the Unionas a free state in 1861.





We are driving west
on US Route 40...







...when we arrive
in Topeka.

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