This is the photo that started it all off. I had just had a successful weekend at two cars shows, the Saturday show in Muskogee, OK, and the Sunday one in Wichita, KS. Since the Wichita show started in the morning, rather than attempt a more than three hour early morning drive (and then have very little time to detail my car), I decided to drive up Saturday night and stay in a hotel. On the way to my hotel, coming up I-235, I noticed an exit for K-42. The image stuck in my mind, and after the car show (in which I won a DVD player AND a best in class plaque), I decided to do something about it. Initially, I just wanted to create some photographic humour for my friends on I.M.B.O.C. (they were well aware of my "interest" in the number 42, or should have been, if my license plate and screen name were any indication), but on my way back home another idea struck. "I wonder if Oklahoma has a highway 42?" My search on a 1980's Oklahoma map yielded nothing, but I simply overlooked it, and understandably so. The highway is a mere 1.4 miles in approximately the middle of nowhere, and I later found it as a 1mm line and a number on the map. I had much better luck finding it with the help of Google, OK Roads and OK Highways. Then, of course, I wanted to find the rest of the 42's in the US. The rest is history. In moving to Japan and finding more 42's, I decided to make my search for 42's worldwide. The quest to photograph them and the search for more 42's continues...