Does the Texan piss roadside? Why yes. Yes, he does. Does the Bear piss in the desert? Click here to find out. Photo: Gay Highwaymen
Tag Archives: Road Trip
Night Fountain…really. (NSFW)
Emigrant: The Other White Meat?
I came across this delicately-worded plaque commemorating the Donner Party at a snowy highway rest stop on a recent road trip on Route 80, over the Donner Pass. Notice that it says many died…but not all. No mention of how the survivors survived. Also, “emigrant” is misspelled.
(Post title credit: The Texan.)
-AidanAbroad
Posted in GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., North America, Northern California, Road Trips, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Signage, Strange News, Travel
Tagged California, cannibalism, Donner, Emigrant, high Sierras, Highway, may, misspelled signs, Nevada, party, pass, Rest stop, Road Trip, route 80, Sierra Nevada, Snow, white meat
NY Tollbooth
Northbound toll booth in New York state, with some interesting iPhone/window reflections.
– AidanAbroad
Posted in New York, Road Trips, Travel
Tagged iPhone, New York, Photography, Road Trip, Tollbooth
Waterbury, CT: Mosque Under Construction
Just drove by an interesting construction project in Waterbury, CT: a mosque (the walls are blanketed in a particularly loud shade of green plastic sheets), partially obscured by pizza and furniture billboards.
-AidanAbroad
Bug splats: strange sign at a gas station
Bug splats. Seen about 45 min north of Seattle on the 5. I have to say, their drawings aren’t terribly accurate…
-AidanAbroad
Posted in Road Trips, Signage, Washington state
Tagged 76 station, Bug splat, Road Trip, Washington
Mount Shasta
Sacred mountain to the Winnemem Wintu and other local tribes, as seen from north of Redding, CA. Stays frozen year-round; still snowy and white in July.
-AidanAbroad
Posted in Northern California, Road Trips
Tagged Mount Shasta, Northern California, Road Trip, sacred mountain
Road Trip: Weed, CA
I’m traveling through the Pacific Northwest this week. Here’s a picture from the town of Weed, in the far north of California.
Giggle Springs and other Sights seen in the Nevada High Desert
Guys in trucks and on bikes, the road to Area 51, shops and signage, life and decay, ghost towns, cacti, Tonopah home of the Stealth, oil and gas, public toilets, a saline lake. Driving north on U.S. 95 in the Nevada High Desert, returning from Smokeout.
Posted in Nevada, Road Trips, Signage, Travel
Tagged Nevada, Photography, Road Trip, Signage, US 101
Goldfield Ghost Town’s Glory Hole and More
Glory Hole Antiques, that is. An odd little junk shop with an open door, an interesting inventory, no price tags and no one in sight or within earshot. We put a few dollars in a jar for an old bottle and a small cannonball. Goldfield boomed in the early part of the century, following a 1903 bonanza strike, and was busy until 1940, after which it fell into decline. Few businesses are open or residences occupied now, with vacancy running about 90%. On U.S. Highway 95 in Nevada.
Posted in Collecting, History, Nevada, Photography, Road Trips, Signage, Travel
Tagged Collecting, Culture, Ghost Town, Goldfield, History, Nevada, Road Trip, Signage, Western
Guys at Truck Stops: Surveilling the Wildlife at a Kansas “Kum N Go”
Gas stops provide ample opportunity for observing local wildlife in its own environment. These specimens were recorded in mid-May, 2010 in Kansas at a “Kum-N-Go” on the I-80. For a candid photo of the seldom-seen Middle American Humpy Striped Gas-Guzzler, click here.
Posted in Kansas, Road Trips, Surveillance, Travel
Tagged 1-80, Gas Station, Kansas, Kum N Go, Road Trip, Surveillance, Truck Stop
The Gay Highwaymen 