I just returned from my 2026 five-week trip (5/28 -6/30) which focused on Tennessee and Kentucky.  I also took more photos in Cincinnati, some Arkansas, and northern Alabama as well as other states. As with my other big roadtrips, I posted about a dozen photos each night to Instagram which were taken that day.  Now that I’m home and adding about 4,200 photos to my website, I’ll be posting a sampling of photos to Flickr and posts to this blog as I finish up each day’s batch.

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Tentative Plans for Upcoming Trips

• 2027: IA, MN, and WI
• 2028: OH, PA, MD, WV, and some VA
• 2029: Northeast
• 2030: Canada & Alaska

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Annual Winter Projects. I comb my website for dead external links, and the map links to see what’s changed (repainted, demolished, etc.) and update the descriptions throughout the more than 3,500 webpages.  I post to this blog with some of these good news/bad news discoveries.

For more detailed updates about my website & other stuff, check out the What’s New  page at my website.

If you’re into signs, you might enjoy my book “Vintage Signs of America” which was published in 2018.  You can buy it at Amazon and other online book stores.

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My website (roadarch.com) has been my focus for more than 25 years now.  This blog is meant as a much smaller-scale companion which includes many places/things not “worthy” of my website.

The maps below from 2007 (pre-Google Maps) were customized by my traveling buddies: