Transition

After today, Freedom Winter 2010 will be taking on a new mission.  I'll be offering advice, reviews, and recommendations on everything related to skiing, climbing, camping, photography, and mountaineering.  I'm planning on doing at least three postings a week and considering migrating to an independent website.  Upcoming posts include: Tips For First Time Ski Buyers, Cold Weather Layering, and Hiking Mt. Washington In Winter.  

Since my last post I have arrived home, taking the Southern Route through the United States.  After leaving  Denver, I drove south to New Mexico and then headed east driving through Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.  From Arkansas I headed south driving along the Mississippi, driving briefly into Louisiana before turning east again, crossing Mississippi, and Alabama.  The final leg involved heading north through Georgia and South Carolina before arriving at my temporary lodgings in Raleigh, N.C.  In completing the Southern Route, I've now visited 48 states with only Hawaii and Alaska left.  

Here's the trip's final photos.

Looks a little worried?

 

There are only a handful of independent motels left in America.  The best ones, visually speaking, still evoke the style of the pre-interstate highway system.

For those fans of No Country For Old Men, you'll recognize this hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico.

This motel did not survive.  Kinda cool to wander around though.

I was waiting for a strung out junkie to leap out of bed.  Surprisingly I did not find any evidence of habitation.

The inspiration for Mator, in Radiator Springs fame. 

I call this photo The American Economy.  Yes, a little trite.  

The junk in this image is dust and debris that landed on the camera's CCD sensor.  I did not notice it at the time and I don't have the software to remove the dirt.  However, Adobe Photoshop Elements is on order, which I can use to fix this image.