AMERICAN SUMMER Published June 1, 2015 at 2000 × 2000 in THE 2014 VNPA PHOTO CONTEST WINNERS GALLERY: Feature Picture Story Open spaces and radical changes in the landscape serve as a crash course in US geography. Just off of US 76 in Northeastern Colorado, a handmade sign at a gas station, unintentionally serves as a definitive icon of the Americana road trip.