Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Highway distractions

while we drove to (and from) niagara falls i took a lot of pictures while driving. there were a lot of funny city names, or names of real dutch cities (like amsterdam and rotterdam), or cities that we had no clue how to pronounce. perhaps i should once make a flickr-set of those. not all are entirely sharp as its not easy taking pictures of highway signs while driving past them with 65 miles/hour!
there are a lot of signs for local/chain eateries as well, as you can see here. denny's is a very cheap breakfast place where we sometimes like to go. then there are the trucks and buses which can have interesting advertisements too.... or just rush by with such crazy speed that they become a scary distraction....

2 comments:

biebkriebels said...

Ah, those empty highways are so nice to drive. The scenery is great.We felt the real american way to be sometimes the only car on the road. Not that crazy bumper to bumper as here.

hamilton said...

When I was younger, we used to watch the news out of Buffalo and laugh at the odd sounding names of their towns. now I am used it, but the Indian names in Western New York were distinctly different than the ones in Southern Ontario. Now, I sometimes watch the news out of Seattle (it comes with our cable for some reason) and those Indian names are very different again and I wonder how they can get their tongue around some of the pronunciations!