My Mum, who is currently in Texas, saw this and couldn’t resist taking a snap for the blog.

Fun facts about Route 183:

• It starts in Texas, and goes through Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska before finishing in South Dakota
• It is 2,012 km long
• It runs pretty much directly up in a straight line from start to end

My sister Mel snapped this shot of her car’s speedometer as it reached the impressive milestone of 183,000 km.

You know how when you buy a new car, you suddenly start to see lots of other people driving that car too.

Well, that is kind of like me and the number 183.

Here’s one I noticed late last week.

Trev sent me this picture, of a K183 steam locomotive.

Here’s his description:

About an hour and a half east of Melbourne in the small town of Yarragon is a steam locomotive in the park, driven past it heaps of times but have just noticed its engine number K183…

K class steam engines were not designed for high speed Passenger trains although they could do it if the need arrived, mostly they were used as general purpose locos….

so no need to hurry with your project as like the K class engine given time the job will be done

Although I am occasionally concerned that I won’t finish Project 183 in time, perhaps I should take a leaf out of the book of the K183, and be the tortoise, rather than the hare!

Thanks Trev, for both the image and the tip.

Our home computer is slowing wearing out and seems to be getting affected by all number of viruses…

…183 to be exact. D’oh! At least I took a screen print to take advantage of the occasion.

Just for something fun, I think I might put up from time to time some pictures of the number 183 I see out there in the wide world.

Here is one from my recent trip to Bali. Slightly manufactured in nature, as I put the table 18 and table 3 signs together. Devilishly clever some might say.

If you happen to see the number 183 out and about, I would love to see some happy snaps of it.

Just noticed that Safeway has started doing some subtle promotion of Project 183, judging by the price of parsley at our local store.

If you see any other examples of 183 out there, please send them through.