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07 Dec 2008, 3:56 pm

One of my special interests roads. I enjoy taking road pictures and videos, and especially watching ones from other people.

Here's some of my road videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNUz4kkvd3k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9b53nbJ9G4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LtqxrCLQ98
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdcreO2P2yI

Any other road geeks here on WP?



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07 Dec 2008, 4:00 pm

You could call me one. I like Road Maps/Road Atlases and know many roads in the UK. :)


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07 Dec 2008, 4:10 pm

I love roads. roads and bridges (I could spend all day riding back and forth the Sund bridge form Malmo to Copenhagen... unfortunately no one is willing to give me such a ride :( meh, if only I could drive...)

my dad worked on road and bridge construction and I loved to come over to his workplace and watch how it all comes to be.

being on the road is great too, so relaxing to just watch it pass by. nice videos, AspieCard!


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07 Dec 2008, 4:22 pm

Ever been on www.aaroads.com ?

I am definitely a road geek.


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07 Dec 2008, 4:35 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:
Ever been on www.aaroads.com ?

I am definitely a road geek.


I'm going to start taking some picture for their Kentucky page. Right now their best pages are for the Western & SouthernEastern states, the KY one was just started last month

Here are a couple road pics I've taken

In Louisville
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In Lexington

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07 Dec 2008, 4:47 pm

Those are good photos.


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07 Dec 2008, 5:15 pm

Road Geek here. Like to drive whenever possible and convenient



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07 Dec 2008, 5:34 pm

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lol You guys have Waffle House down in Kentucky, too?



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07 Dec 2008, 7:01 pm

Not so much a road geek, probably cause i don't drive. On the other hand i do take pictures of alot of random things, and once recorded myself biking down a very steep hill no hands. So maybe more of a photo-geek instead of road geek.



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07 Dec 2008, 7:01 pm

Going on road trips is one of my favorite things to do.


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07 Dec 2008, 9:30 pm

Love x-country road trips. Like to pick offbeat routes, get local food, listen to local music.



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07 Dec 2008, 9:42 pm

Oooooooh! :o I'm all excited! I didn't know other people were into roads! :D :D :D So, I guess I'm a road geek, then! :D

I can't get the Youtube vids to play properly, but the photos are brilliant!

How did you take the photos, btw? I'm almost always the driver, rather than a passenger, so haven't managed to take any photos, but I've loads of images in my head. I especially like on and off-ramps, flyovers and so on. It's all to do with the patterns formed by the lines and horizons intersecting...I'm so excited I can hardly type! Symmetry and asymmetry!

I had been thinking it would be really good to get a tiny camera attached to spectacle frames, or I suppose to the dashboard (but that wouldn't be so good as I wouldn't get exactly what I was seeing) and I could just click whenever I wanted to get an image.



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07 Dec 2008, 9:44 pm

Good pics - makes me feel like travelling.


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07 Dec 2008, 9:58 pm

My obsession is infrastructure and roads are part of that



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07 Dec 2008, 9:59 pm

Flipmode, I`m going to temporarily invade this thread to tell you that I think your avatar is fantastic! :lol:


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07 Dec 2008, 10:40 pm

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Flipmode, I`m going to temporarily invade this thread to tell you that I think your avatar is fantastic! :lol:


thanks :) lol