We recently drove from North Carolina to Wyoming. Here's St. Louis, Missouri- the Gateway Arch and capitol dome, early morning.
Levi Leipheimer, the Discovery rider who placed third in the 2007 Tour de France, starts the last stage of the Tour of Missouri in St. Louis.
Will in Indiana
Hannibal, Missouri
Hannibal, Missouri- Jose Flores paints an historic building in Mark Twain's hometown, where the character Tom Sawyer once whitewashed a fence.
Hannibal, Missouri- Vending machine features the face of Mark Twain in the famous author's boyhood home.
Pay phones at a rest stop in West Virginia
Wayne Martin surveys a newly harvested corn field on his farm in western Iowa.
Des Moines- Central golden dome and one of the four corner domes of the Iowa state capitol, built in 1886.
Field of sunflowers in Nebraska
A restored concrete guardrail of the old Lincoln Highway, America's first transcontinental route, near Overton, Nebraska.
Verna Anderson, a member of the local historical society, holds an old railroad worker's sign outside the Lincoln Highway Visitors Center in Shelton, Nebraska.
A farm west of Cozad, Nebraska
Corn field near North Platte, Nebraska
Roadside signs in North Platte, Nebraska
Breakfast on the road
Grain elevator filling a freight train car with corn in Lexington, Nebraska.
Freight train passes a grain elevator in Lexington, Nebraska, at twilight.
Rearview mirror view on a ranch road in Wyoming.
Aspen trees, Wyoming
Carbon County, Wyoming- Young mule deer buck surveys the local talent pool of does at the start of rutting season.
Natural blonde, Wyoming
Winter wheat, Wyoming
A coyote in Wyoming
Traditional windmill at sunset
Barbed wire fence on the edge of a prairie
Lincoln, Nebraska seen from Nine-Mile Prairie, a tall-grass prairie restored by the University of Nebraska.
Deni in the tall grass of Nine-Mile Prairie near Lincoln, Nebraska.
Indian grass, a true prairie tall grass, on the Nine-Mile Prairie outside Lincoln, Nebraska.
An American buffalo (bison) on a farm in southeastern Nebraska.
Old utility poles with glass jar insulators still stand along a roadside in southern Indiana.
A classic advertisement on an old barn off US 50 near Clay City, Illinois.
Road in southeast Wyoming.
The end of the road