Memories of Road Trips Past

DQ lunch in Ellensburg, originally uploaded by istargazer.

Wall Drug Parking

Wall, South Dakota

On the road again....

We're back on the road today, leaving the DC area, leaving Maryland and encountering more toll roads....

Ocean City, Maryland

Breakfast Time

Racecomp Engineering

Hey! Racecomp Engineering is in Elkridge, Maryland! They made it a breeze for me to pick up Ver.2 Yellow Springs for the STI. I can't wait to install them. I even got a couple of stickers :0)

Here's an extra picture because I missed yesterday....

National Air and Space Museum: Udvar-Hazy Center

The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, VA.

The infamous B-29 bomber, Enola Gay is on view here. Sixty-two years ago today, on August 6, 1945, this Martin-built B-29-MO dropped the first ever atomic weapon used in combat on Hiroshima, Japan.

Over 140,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed.

Find more information at The Official Homepage of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and take a virtual tour.

Traffic

Typical traffic on the I-270 outside Washington, DC.

Big Moose

The one on the right :rolleyes: !

Black River Falls, Wisconsin

Pennsylvania Turnpike

On the I-76 in Pennsylvania.

Sport Honda

Silver Spring, MD. I brought the Odyssey in for "Service B" on Tuesday.

Circuit City, Madison, Wisconsin

We stopped at this Circuit City in Madison earlier this week to buy a new camera: a Sony DSC-N2 which was highly rated in Consumer Reports July '07 issue. It was on clearance so in short supply. We ended up getting the demo model for $100 off Sony's current MSRP.

Garage mates ver. 1

This is the original, non-photochopped version of one of the pictures I posted yesterday.

Kwik-E-Mart #3 - Bladensburg, Maryland

We've been in the DC area for a few days now mostly running errands and getting some shopping done--so not much time for a lot of pics. On Saturday we went to our third Kwik-E-Mart. We made it just in time, because all the Kwik-E-Marts will be changed back to regular 7-Eleven stores at the end of the month.



Two garage-mates finally meet and go out to a few places together! Here's my R32Argent's VW R32 parked next to our Odyssey:



To get here to DC we had to drive through some thunder storms and torrential rain:

Kwik-E-Mart, Chicago, Illinois

We had two busy days of driving, so I'm behind a little. We didn't get to our hotel room until 10 PM last night because we made a couple of extra stops during the day, including this visit to the Kwik-E-Mart in Chicago.



TGIF will be posted tomorrow...does that make it TGIS?

Kum & Go

We stopped at this Cenex station in Rice Lake, Wisconsin for an emergency bathroom break. Luckily enough, it was the first gas station I found that carried NOS energy drink in a bottle.

Needless to say, I bought 3 bottles (and a bag of Wisconsin cheddar cheese curds to go with :0)

The Sleeping Giant on Lake Superior

As viewed from Chippewa Park, Thunder Bay, Ontario.

The Prospector Steak House

Thunder Bay, Ontario. We had dinner there on Saturday and it was delicious. I didn't realize there was a problem until after we got outside and were waiting on the sidewalk when the ambulance pulled up and attended to someone inside.

St. Andrews Church

Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Come as You Are

Uncle Frank's Supper Club has been closed for many years. (It was closed when we were here two years ago.) I like the way it looks like it belongs in another era.