I live in Oregon and drive to the east coast twice yearly to visit family. For the past few years, I've gone east using the Old U.S. route system, set up in the 1920s. Three years ago, my trip was on the longest of the U.S. routes, U.S. Route 20, which runs from Newport, Oregon, to Kenmore Square in Boston, Massachusetts — a great way to travel the country off of the interstates.
One morning, just after having crossed the Mississippi River into Illinois, I spotted this vista in Galena, Illinois. There was nowhere to pull over, and I found myself cursing my bad luck when suddenly there was a pull-off! I took advantage of my newfound good luck and took this photo. It is as shot except for cleaning up some lens flare introduced by shooting directly into the rising sun.
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Dimitri Vasileiou • Editor