I was trying to remember this morning when I became so enamored with directional roadside signage. I think it must have been around the time I started my big west coast bike trip back in 1989. Somewhere is a picture of me standing near an American Youth Hostels sign near San Pedro, California, where I had purchased my first ayh membership and was about to embark on a solo mountain bike trip from Seattle to the Redwoods of Santa Cruz.I just love these signs and it seems now they are everywhere, even prevalent in the business world. Several years ago when I was about to start a new job in Oregon, I made one on our backyard here in Florida and another when I came back here to care for my Dad back in 2012.
Some of the signs point to places I have lived and another has places that are pretty much ghost towns now. I will probably always have wanderlust to some degree, but for now I am a bonafide homebody..pointing the way for others. I love the whole "as the crow flies " mileage idea...oh if I could only fly...
