Drive By Cross Country

From the Midwest to the West at 75 mph

It’s a long way from Grand Rapids, Michigan to the western USA and when you’re driving there’s an awful lot of space between here and there. For those of us who enjoy traveling, there are many familiar sites along the amazing interstate highway system that connects the great expanses of our country.

My journeys are accompanied by a camera or two. These cameras usually stay packed until we reach our final destination. However, I have a nice little point-and-shoot which sits on the dashboard – waiting for me to grab it to capture “stuff” as we pass by at highway speeds. Below is an abbreviated scrapbook that shows you some of that stuff that we saw along the highway as we made our way from Michigan to California. Excuse me if some of the photos are 75mph blurry.


the rolling farmlands of Illinois	the paths between rows in Iowa are irrigation ditches

colorful clouds as the day nears sunset	huge irrigators watering corn

rolls of hay in Nebraska fields	gigantic stockyard in Ogalalla, Nebraska

Lincoln statue near Laramie, Wyoming	oil refinery in Sinclair, Wyoming

solitary monuments near Green River, Wyoming	steep upgrade ahead in western Wyoming

skyline of downtown Salt Lake City	salt processing factory near Grant, Utah

Tree of Utah sculpture	production company filming at Bonneville Salt Flats

mountains leaving western Utah	mighty diesels pulling freight at Battle Mountain, Nevada

hillside letter at Carlin, Nevada	work train near Lovelock, Nevada

weather approaching Reno at sunset	Lake Tenaya in Yosemite Nat’l Park – driving much slower!