Driving Highways

The US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, has produced a short book called "Read Your Road."
As bad as that sounds coming from the Feds, it actually has some good information, especially for young or new drivers.
Actually, from what I see on the road, there's a shitload of drivers who don't have a clue.

You can download the 524kb, yes kb, pdf

This is why you should explore those roads...

I used to jump on my scooter and not think about the driveway and slow right turns. After two light strokes riding is more difficult. Every day I can do something I couldn't do yesterday. Once on the road I limber up. Free again. Told the OL I have to go to Lowes and get a roof stretcher. I won't be back for awhile. Ride to Lake Waccamaw the largest bay lake on the east coast. Easy curvy road to the dam. Little concrete structure built in the 50's before people worried about wetlands. Doctors, lawyers, candlestick makers houses line the shore. Piers and boat houses jut into the lake. I bet it was nice once.
Back to the two lanes. The slab is only a mile over, but I prefer to take my time as I am heading home. Their is a church ahead and I pull over. Sitting on the steps I get out my paper and roll a blunt. Good road on the left. It is not a shortcut to anywhere. I can ride the Harley in second gear and smoke the doobie. Gawd I'm fried. I am on Soles Rd. Few houses lots of woods and fields. Not far now, past the post office and gas/grocery store that is the town of Nakina. I pull into the horrid driveway again and the dog greets me. Well at least the dog doesn't talk much.

tarheel

Cool, I'd never heard of a bay lake.

Not Waccamaw, down in the swampy Coastal Plain. Waccamaw turns out to be among the biggest of the Carolina Bays, a series of half a million lakes and wetlands sprinkled from Delaware to Georgia. They’re called bays not because they open onto the ocean, but because of the sweet, loblolly, and red bay trees that fill them. They have an oval shape, oriented from northwest to southeast. Most are wetlands; some are even dry, but larger ones — like Waccamaw — stay filled. They have unique ecosystems, and people love to theorize about their origins and worry about their futures.

Actually the bays are located from NJ to FL. Viewed from space they look like a meteor broke up and littered the landscape a 100 million years ago.

tarheel

Carolina bays are one of those things I hope I live long enough for science to explain to me.

Like aliens, and the human appendix.