I just came across your web site while browsing the net for information on the 4 corners Monument and the state of New Mexico. Congratulations for your web site, you did a great job ! I personally take the same pictures as you do : Welcome signs and State Capitol buildings. We are going to NM next month (that'll be State n° 48 and Capitol bldg n°45 !) and after seeing your pictures I'm even more excited about that trip. Once again, congratulations. It's a nice tribute to your beautiful country.

Best regards
Stéphane
Belgium

I just stumbled across your website while looking to see if anyone else took pictures of state welcome signs like I do. Fantastic website!!! Thanks so much. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Take care.

Eva Sharp
New Hampshire

Man I thouhgt I was the only weirdo! into this list thing! all 50 states, 20 state capitolbuildings, 5 nations, 3 continents, 17 MN state, seen at least 15 of the Mississippi's 28 lock and damns parks, ??? of the 3200 US counties! I think you got the idea... or the disease. You still living in MN? I have startd a courthouse pictures collection I have I thnk 7 out of the 87.

Bill

I just wanted to drop a note about your site. It was featured in one of my e-letters as the cool page of the day. I think your page is terrific! Great Job! I can spend hours on it, just looking at all the different states!

Karen Bertke

Hello, Roger Johnson! This world is full of irony and coincidence but I never thought I would discover someone whose interests with respect to our country so closely resembled my own. I too am enamered with the states of our glorious country, their capitols and points of interest and I once had assembled a modest (15-20 state) collection of welcome signs as well. I have no idea where those photos are today but it is no great loss since most of them were of poor quality anyway, having been taken from a moving vehicle, many without beneifit of high speed film. Anyway it was very nice to stumble onto your website and peruse your offerings. My goal has always been to set foot in every state in the union and to visit every state capitol. To date, I have visited 49 states ( I'm missing Alaska) and 36 capitols. I hope to visit Alaska one day and to see the other capitols and I might revive my state welcome sign activities as well. Thank-you for your very interesting web site. By the way, my name is Roger Johnson as well. A little older than you (52) but undoubtedly a kindred spirit.

Roger Johnson

Dear Roger, my compliments for Your "Welcome to America".I' ve appreciated photos, trip maps an' Your indications which help me to plan my next trips to America. I'm from Italy but I love America more than my own country an' when I travel for vacation I spend some days in USA. I have a little collection of welcome signs from MS, AL, FL, MO, KY an' they're among my best memories. You did a great job! Please accept my best regards to You and Your Family with "CIAO" (that means Hello to a friend in italian)from a friend in Italy. Bye !!

Antonio Lusso

I got a link to your website, from another guy who's site I found. I just wanted to say you did a great job and I am so jealous! I am trying to go to every state although I don't expect to accomplish that anytime soon. I am almost half way there, and I take all the state welcome signs pictures too. My Texas one is the only one that turned out bad so far. Sun was in the way. I would like to do the capitals too but I have only made four of them. Well just wanted to say good job and I love the site!!

Dana~:oÞ®

What a great site! I've just this morning discovered it, and am going to show it to my daughter when she gets home from school this afternoon. When she was in kindergarten, we took a trip from Florida up to Illinois for a cousin's wedding. I had her get out of the car at each state line (FL, AL, TN, KY, and IL) and take a picture of the welcome sign. We then took pictures of the activities we participated in during the long wedding weekend. When we returned home, we created a poster of our trip for her to share with her class. She's a seventh grader now, so of course she rolls her eyes at me for suggesting such sport these days, but I plan to show her how interesting (and yes, educational) it can be. Your site gets an A+ on both counts...it's so interesting that kids won't even notice it's also educational! Keep it up - you are indeed living an adventure!

Leigh Tomich