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Here is another one of those former chain restaurants turned independent. This was once a Arctic Circle which has its headquarters in Midvale, Utah.
I was traveling from Salt Lake City to Portland when I took this picture but the place was not open on Sunday's so I had to go somewhere else.
Always love driving through small towns along old US Highways. Rupert, Idaho is located about 5 miles north of Interstate 84 along what was US Highway 30.
Rupert is an interesting town were it appears most of the chain restaurants have closed but have been taken over by independent operations.
Here a former Dairy Queen is now a sit down restaurant but you can still see the former ordering board which now just has a company sign on it and the unused drive thru window. Surprised they have not removed the menu board and microphoen/speaker yet.
You do not see too many medical buildings abandoned but here is one in West Valley City, Utah just west of the Valley Fair Mall.
Not sure how long it has been abandoned but from the looks of the directory it has been some time although the Google picture did show cars in the parking lot.
Attended the Pontiac Car Show at Wheeler Farm a couple of weeks ago and had a great time getting some pictures of these classic cars (and some newer ones too).
While I was taken the previous picture I saw this boat just sitting upside down along the beach. There is a few homes near this point so it might belong to them.
What a view.
After visiting my friend in Stanwood we took a drive around Camano Island. Sometimes you just have to take roads that leave off the main road because you never know what your might find.
In this case we found a development of pretty boring homes but also came upon this wonderful view.
Remember you never know what you might find when you take the road less driven...
I always like the colors of Boise-Winnemucca Stages buses. Their newer buses are even better looking that some of their older ones.
One irony is the name of the bus company that started out by providing bus service from Boise to yes Winnemucca where it connected to Greyhound.
The company stopped running that route about a decade ago but the name lives on.
If you go through my blog you will quickly notice that I love taking pictures of almost anything that is transportation related.
After my trip to Portland and Seattle back last October we flew from Seattle to Salt Lake City on Delta. We had to turn in the rental car by noon and it was raining hard so we decided to just get to airport early and have lunch there.
Of course that left me plenty of time to take pictures of planes at SEATAC.
This is Icelandair 757 being taxied to its gate from the Delta hanger.
You never know what you might encounter driving down the road...
After spending some time in Portland at a conference I took Washington State's Cascade train service up to Seattle and met my wife who flew directly up to Seattle.
While driving the next day to have breakfast with my best friend, his wife and daughter a truck pulled off the same off ramp we did.
When we started to pass the truck we realized that he was towing a replica of Tow Mater from the Cars movies. Fortunately he pulled into the same shopping center we did so we were able to get some pictures.
Here is the final picture of neon at Portland Union Station.
