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Journaling: As we drove towards our vacation destination, I watched the countryside, trying without much success to capture the landscape with my camera from a car going seventy miles an hour. Sometimes I saw a sign for something along the road that Id have liked to have seen, but my dear husband wouldnt stop. Well be late arriving, he said, Theres a rest stop just ahead, we can stop there. But thats the Mississippi River, I replied. Theres no parking here, he responded.

So I photographed the rest stops for two days of our trip. I read the signs posted, the ones with all the rules for what you can and cant do at a rest stop. I hadnt thought theyd need so many rules for a place thats basically two restrooms off a lobby with some vending machines.

I think some states are very clever to try to disguise rest stops built along interstates with interesting architecture, like the one that looked like a barn or this one with a large piece of a wind turbine blade on display. But a rest stop is still two restrooms off a lobby and some vending machines. I wonder to whom I can write to plead for a rest stop over that section of the Mississippi that we crossed on this trip. We might go that way again. iPhone: June 2014

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