Photos from 11-14 October 2000 Road Trip,
from Louisville to Atlanta and back
This is a collection of road-related photos I took on a road trip to the 2000 Linux Showcase conference. Many of the individual photos, in and of themselves, aren't anything special. This is my first sizable batch of road trip photos and this page contains the best of the bunch.
The Trip
The route was along I-65 to TN 155 north of Nashville (AAA told me to take this detour due to construction in Nashville) to I-24 to I-75 to the interchange complex with I-285 and US 41 near Smyrna, where the conference site and the hotel I spent three nights at were. I left Wednesday afternoon the 11th and came back Saturday night the 14th.
The Photos
Most of the photos you will find here include:
- The first half of the southbound trip, between Louisville and just past Nashville.
- The first half of the northbound return trip, between Atlanta and just past Chattanooga.
- Other stuff I managed to take photos of.
The photos were taken with a Sony Mavica FD-83 digital camera. The camera was mounted on the dashboard using duct tape for most of these.
This page only contains what I thought were the best of the bunch; the rest of them are available on a separate page, which contains a large number of photos and may test you or your web browser's patience while loading.
[an error occurred while processing this directive]| #231 |  (640×480 JPG, 41296 bytes) | This is I-65 southbound, just south of Louisville. I-65 is at least three lanes in each direction between Louisville and Elizabethtown. |
| #232 |  (640×480 JPG, 51715 bytes) | I-65 southbound, just south of Louisville. |
| #233 |  (640×480 JPG, 39894 bytes) | I-65 southbound, just south of Louisville. |
| #234 |  (640×480 JPG, 45665 bytes) | I-65 southbound, just south of Louisville. |
| #235 |  (640×480 JPG, 47507 bytes) | I-65 southbound, south of Louisville. Still with us? :) |
| #248 |  (640×480 JPG, 52110 bytes) | After getting off at the US 62 exit to eat at Burger King (the same restaurant I ate at last year on my trip to the ALS conference), I took a photo or two as I was getting back onto 65. This is a sign assembly on US 62 eastbound in Elizabethtown, approaching I-65. |
| #250 |  (640×480 JPG, 42383 bytes) | This is where the 6-lane portion of I-65 south of Louisville ends. For now. |
| #264 |  (640×480 JPG, 55649 bytes) | I-65 south, somewhere north of the Nolin Lake exit. |
| #266 |  (640×480 JPG, 47066 bytes) | Big Brown Sign for Exit 65, Nolin Lake. |
| #267 |  (640×480 JPG, 65127 bytes) | Big Green Sign for Exit 65 |
| #302 |  (640×480 JPG, 42016 bytes) | An example of the 2/10-mile markers in the Nashville area, on I-65 southbound. These are similar to the ones used in Louisville. |
| #311 |  (640×480 JPG, 71171 bytes) | Reassurance sign: EAST TN 155. |
| #312 |  (640×480 JPG, 36729 bytes) | TN 155 eastbound from I-65 overpasses the Cumberland River. This is the Cumberland River. And no, I wasn't going towards it. :) |
| #313 |  (640×480 JPG, 51543 bytes) | A limited-access section of TN 155 east of the Cumberland River. |
| #314 |  (640×480 JPG, 43257 bytes) | BGS for Exit 12, to some destinations whose names particluarly remind you that you're in Nashville. Is there a letter or digit missing after ``12''? |
| #317 |  (640×480 JPG, 63525 bytes) | Reassurance sign assembly: SOUTH TN 155, TO I-40. |
| #321 |  (640×480 JPG, 53173 bytes) | BGS for Exits 8A-B, to US 70. Aren't the letters a little too closely spaced together on this sign? |
| #326 |  (640×480 JPG, 44635 bytes) | TN 155, the Briley Parkway, is a classic example of a highway that changes from limited-access to full-access a couple times, much like New Circle Road (KY 4) in Lexington, KY. This photo shows a green sign for a numbered Exit 5 and a stoplight at the same time, within a few hundred feet of eachother! |
| #332 |  (640×480 JPG, 56071 bytes) | I-24 eastbound from Nashville, driving away from the sun as it is setting. I really like this photo except the shutter speed should have been faster like some of the earlier daytime photos I took. There's no explicit way to control it with the camera I was using, it apparently adjusts automatically to the light, but it was the best I could do at night. |
| #339 |  (640×480 JPG, 47047 bytes) |
BGS for I-75 southbound, exit 345 in Georgia, located a few
miles south of the GA-TN border, for US 41 and US 76. I'm sorry
the quality of this photo isn't that great.
Exit 345 is one of the new milepost-based exit numbers on Interstate highways in Georgia. Exit numbers were changed in 2000; before then Georgia was probably one of the last remaining states to use sequential exit numbers on their freeways. This sign is also a typical example of the use of Series D with lowercase letters on Big Green Signs in Georiga. The Federal Highway Administration's ``Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs'' does not specify lowercase letters for Series D or anything else except Series E Modified. Some out-of-state drivers accustomed to the use of Series E Modified on BGSs in other states (``road geeks'' in particular) will notice the different typeface; a few even mistake it for Clearview, the typeface under development by the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute. I've also seen Series D with lowercase letters used on larger street signs in Louisville and some other cities. I also just now noticed that they don't dot their i's. |
| #367 |  (640×480 JPG, 98963 bytes) |
These next few photos were taken from inside the Cobb Galleria, the site of the 2000 Linux Showcase conference. This is I-285 northwest of Atlanta, GA, overpassing US 41, the mighty wide Cobb Parkway. In the background where the Chevron and the Waffle House are located is the intersection with Spring Road. |
| #368 |  (640×480 JPG, 68142 bytes) | A wide-angle view of I-285 overpassing US 41 Cobb Parkway. |
| #395 |  (640×480 JPG, 87365 bytes) | Some signs hanging off a gantry on ___ just before it intersects Cobb Parkway. |
| #720 |  (1024×768 JPG, 79110 bytes) |
The remaining photos were taken on the return trip to Louisville. And what better prelude to a long road trip than an access ramp? This is from the I-285 eastbound C/D lanes (from US 41) to I-75 northbound near Smyrna, GA. |
| #721 |  (1024×768 JPG, 65481 bytes) | C/D lanes on I-75 just north of the I-285 interchange near Smyrna, GA. |
| #724 |  (1024×768 JPG, 77304 bytes) | Wide, wide, wide I-75 northbound near Smyrna, GA, coming up on the Delk Road (GA 280) exit. |
| #727 |  (1024×768 JPG, 86182 bytes) | Another shot of wide, wide I-75 and all of its traffic. This is on a Saturday evening around 17:45 hours! Thank $DEITY I managed to avoid any serious morning and afternoon rush-hours on these freeways. I think the sign is for the GA 120 exit. |
| #733 |  (1024×768 JPG, 58289 bytes) | Diagrammatic BGS for Exit 268, which splits onto I-575. |
| #735 |  (1024×768 JPG, 83787 bytes) | A nice shot of I-75 northbound before Exit 283. |
| #747 |  (640×480 JPG, 28782 bytes) | Gore sign for Exit 290. Notice the use of Series D. <SPECULATE>Sequential exit numbers having been in the 100 series around here, there was probably not enough room to fit three full-size digits using Series E.</SPECULATE> |
| #753 |  (640×480 JPG, 25538 bytes) | This could have been a really good shot except for the sun wasn't behind me. |
| #766 |  (640×480 JPG, 26141 bytes) | ``Bee'' alert. Arrive unhurt. You know there's road construction in Tennessee when you see these signs. |
| #767 |  (640×480 JPG, 26326 bytes) | Diagrammatic BGS for the exit to I-24 westbound. |
| #796 |  (640×480 JPG, 29192 bytes) | No, that truck wasn't on fire. :) I-24 westbound in Tennessee. |
| #800 |  (640×480 JPG, 20075 bytes) | I-24 on a long bridge over a lake a few miles west of Chattanooga. |
| #801 |  (640×480 JPG, 21570 bytes) | I-24 westbound in the sunset, approaching the big Tennessee-Alabama Fireworks store between the westbound and eastbound lanes. |