September 10, 2020
Half of my photos from my 1991 bicycle tour from Boston to Kansas City
In the course of scanning my old slides I came across some of the slides I shot on my solo bicycle ride from Boston to Kansas City in 1991. I found a loose leaf notebook containing pages 8 through 16 of my slides from that trip (20 slides per page). Pages 1 through 7 are somewhere, but I just haven't come across them yet. These pages cover the span from the Indiana/Ohio border to Kansas City, and include photos from around the Kansas City area. You can see all that I have here. They're not in strictly chronological order, but they tend to go from west to east generally. Below are a few samples:
Pretty obviously a county courthouse, but I have not been able to identify the specific location. It's likely to be in Indiana or Illinois. If you know, tell me!
Mike's Pizza in Royal Center, Indiana, where I had a great lunch.
Central Park torpedo in Henry, Illinois. The most recent Google streetview shows that it is still there.
Also in Henry, Illinois, but I can't find it on streetview now.
2nd Street in Clinton, Iowa, where I lived for three years.
The bike shop in Clinton where I bought my first 10-speed.
Crossing the Mississippi from Illinois to Iowa.
Entering Kansas from Nebraska.
The Liberty Memorial in Kansas City.
Checkout lines at the Walmart Hypermart in Kansas City. This was a Walmart experimental store before there were any Super Walmarts. It was, at the time, the biggest store of any kind I had ever seen and was at least as big as any Super Walmart today.
"The Scout," a sculpture by Cyrus E. Dallin who also sculpted the Paul Revere statue on the Paul Revere Mall in Boston.
I also traveled to the H. Roe Bartle Scout Reservation in southern Missouri. This was our Boy Scout summer camp location.
Filed under Architecture,Cycling,Photography,Travel | September 10, 2020 at 08:01 PM | Comments (0)
