Here's a slideshow I made of my trip. I may play with it some more, so that it plays in order, which I can't figure out. Essentially, it shows a driver view of the trip at every 100 miles (very roughly--sometimes I looked down at the Trip A odometer and realized I'd driven 12 miles past the hundred mark, so I'd take a shot then instead of turning around and driving back...). So, essentially, the 23 pictures are Mile 0 to Mile 20 plus the bridges into and out of Canada (at Detroit and Cornwall).
What's interesting about the slideshow is not the variety but the relative conformity of the images. More than 85% of the trip was completed on interstate roads, and the impact of that mode of travel is obvious: the whole continent looks pretty much the same, zinging by at 75 mph on controlled-access roads. Or, at least, the windshield view is pretty much the same. It's a bad way to get any sense for the uniqueness of geography, I think.
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