It's All Connected

Modern transportation is a pretty amazing concept and reality. Considering it all began with trails that early hunters and traders used to hunt for food and trade goods with distant villages we have since developed interstate and international highways. I find it interesting that if one had a reason to, one could leave their driveway and drive ribbons of roads and end up at Hudson Bay or Terra Del Fuego. Every road connects to other roads which connect to other roads.

It’s interesting to think of all the petroleum that has been used to create all that asphalt. It’s a wonder the ground doesn’t collapse from the void left behind when the oil is removed from the ground.

I always find it odd when a road or a bridge is called “The Road or The Bridge to Nowhere.” There is one in Alaska and Seattle. The Astoria Bridge was once called “A Bridge to Nowhere.” I wonder how the residents of Washington felt about that? Personally I would love to live in a place that was deemed “Nowhere.”

Being that my neighborhood has gained in popularity I no longer live in “Nowhere.” The traffic out my way is amazing. It used to be one car passed my house every half hour. Now there is a constant stream of traffic.

A funny thing is that one development that generates the most traffic in my area is suddenly finding itself in transition. All the folks who purchased these new homes are finding out that they can’t afford to live out here, so all the homes are on the market again. What a waste of good forest land. Those homes were totally unnecessary. There were plenty of homes that needed new owners elsewhere. There were enough roads out there already without creating a new one.