"RoseGarden" - - - - - - - from - nscave

There are obvious differences in driving between Nova Scotia and the southern US. Here it is metres, kilometres and litres. There it is miles per hour, feet and gallons. After all these years I still prefer the latter. You can relate to it. I will never understand why the metric system was forced upon us.

Another difference probably soon to become normal here, is paying for your fuel in advance if you use cash. It works and no one seems to complain. The only downside is if you pay $25.00 and you can only get $23.50 into your tank, you are in the line up again to get your change back. And you know what I think of line ups.

In Canada our highways are mostly designed so that you always exit right, and at most loop around under the highway you just left to travel in your selected direction. Not so south of the border.

Sometimes you exit right. Sometimes you exit left. Sometimes you can exit from both sides at the same point depending on where you think you want to go. 

Direction signs are often small and mounted high overhead. Many areas have no advance direction signs on interstates or local major streets. You notice the exit sign you need just as you pass under it, as you continue on to the next exit wondering wherezizit?

It is not just tourists that have difficulty. I noticed many home state plates zipping from the extreme left to exit right, or the extreme right to exit left, through six to eight lanes of fast moving traffic. In fact the trend seemed to be to try and stay in one of the centre lanes so you can take that last minute action when it is suddenly required.

I do have to say the local residents are very accommodating at making a space for you to enter when you have reached that point of no return. And U-turns are a way of life there, no one bats an eye when a car whips around a boulevard and goes the other way.

I saw one sign that said “Stay In Your Proper Lane.” Not one lane had a sign saying Proper!

-=One Day At A Time=-

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