Plan for the trip. (E.g., I planned to arrive in St. Louis on the 13th).
A Baltimore Mantis.
The sign at the beginning of I-70. The entire trip was about 5000 miles.
I stopped for coffee in Wheeling, WV.
Trucks.
Columbus.
Friggin cats.
Mike at the puzzle exhibit at IU, Bloomington.
The Runcible Spoon, Bloomington, IN.
My grandma's finches and cornfield.
Crossing the Mississippi.
Kansas City, MO.
Driving across Kansas.
Windy.
E-470, Denver, CO.
Pickett men.
Matt's RTW trip.
Denver.
My handprint from when I was about 4.
Mountain climbers.
A close up of the mt. climbers.
In the upper left, about the size of a pixel, is the water tower by my parents' house.
Looking back on Eldorado Canyon from near the water tower.
Jason at Idaho Springs, CO.
Lake near the top of the pass by Idaho Springs.
Above timberline on the pass.
Redrocks Ampitheater. Denver can be seen at the upper left.
How I Lost My Denverginity.
Jas and Jack in Boulder.
Gabe in Denver.
Casa Bonita.
I'm so scared.
Brighton Stamp and Coin.
Heading south.
Near CO Springs.
New Mexican enchantment.
In the TX panhandle. So flat and dark. The cars on the horizon are about 5 minutes away.
The same spot. These were the most brilliant stars I've seen. (About a mile altitude, dry air, moonless night, and no ights for miles.) Unfortunately, my camera only exposes for 2 seconds.
Amarillo, TX.
Double decker freight.
Putting the wind to work.
Mirage.
History of TX (Austin).
Sniper Tower.
Austin at night.
Austin ants.
Fiesta Mexican supermarket.
TX Capitol.
The star's 8 ft across.
Looking down from the dome.
Stephen Austin lead the first Anglo colony into TX.
Kelly and the lone star drain.
South face of the capitol building.
Looking south from the capitol...
... and looking back north at the capitol from the Bat Bridge.
Alisa, KelRob, and Jad going to see...
...the sunset departure of "The World's Largest Urban Bat Colony" (about 1.5 million bats)
it's sunset...
and the bats all come out. The dark "cloud" spread out above the trees is a giant swarm of bats.
The bats from above.
6th St. in Austin at night.
6th St. from the ground.
Passing by Houston.
Houston Spaghetti.
Flat LA.
LA oil refinery.
LA sunset.
Marc on Boubon St..
Finding Jesus off Bourbon St.
Jackson Night.
Nawlins.
WTC
From the roof of the Hilton.
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North again. Note the round metal object on the far left of the picture. This is the "H" logo at the top of the Hilton.
The same "H" is now on the upper left side of the picture.
Tunnel under the WTC.
Riverfront.
For some reason, there was a Holocaust memorial in New Orleans. (I'm not sure what LA had to do with the Holocaust. I wonder if there's a Katrina memorial in Israel...) The next few pictures are from the points of the star.
Menorah.
Rainbow.
Jackson Day.
Carriages.
Jackson Square.
Bourbon St. during the day.
Cafe Du Monde.
Power tower.
The dark line near the bottom of the column is the high water mark for Katrina.
Katrina damage.
Above-ground cemetery.
High water mark.
The X: This building was inspected on Sept. 8th by the team from Arizona, but they didn't enter (No Entry). The space below the X is for the number of bodies found. (Fortunately, the only times I saw when this was neither blank nor 0 was when it said something like "2 cats".)
Political yard.
Levee.
Where the flood-walls broke.
Guilty steel.
Lisa and Donnie are OK.
New Orleans skyline.
Flatter LA.
Taco Bell is closed.
Lower 9th Ward. This was almost a ghost town. Note the high water mark and the camper of one of the few returners.
Coming home (Lower 9th Ward).
City of musicians.
Music row.
Flood gate. (It takes a 6-man crew to close this.)
Pre game party. The Saints were playing for the 1st time in the Superdome since Katrina. Many people came down from Atlanta to watch them play the Falcons.
It's still only 17:32.
Superdome! Note the 2 figures at the upper left.
Aristocracy.
Not a Katrina crowd.
Saints fans.
More Saints fans.
Convergence.
Leaving New Orleans.
Home Depot was one of the 1st stores to open after Katrina.
VA Sunrise.
Back to Baltimore.
Before and after states map. (Light green = visited, dark green = lived, red = never been.)