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….every morning….and every afternoon….this would be your two-and-a-half mile twice-daily commute.
Down the steep, steep driveway.
And out the road to the first creek crossing.
And the second creek.
And the third creek. (Relax! This is the last one! Look at the trees and squirrels and wild turkeys and birds! It’s GORGEOUS!)
Then up the hill.
By the way, occasionally you will come across another car driving in the opposite direction. Somebody is gonna have to figure out how to find room to pull over without going over a cliff. Sometimes this involves driving backward for 1/4 mile till you find a spot. Here are the rules:
1. If the other driver is a guy, he totally has to be the one to pull over.
2. Man or woman, if they have a 4wd to match your 4wd, they have to pull over.
3. If they don’t have a 4wd (aka they are from the city), you will have to pull over. But only then.
I made these rules up all by my sissy, scaredy-cat self and they are based on the fact that I am from the city. So you have to be from the city, like, fresher than me for me to pull over. How do I know? Ha. I can so tell….. Like, you’re probably not driving a 4wd. And you’re probably driving 2 miles an hour even if you are driving a 4wd cuz you don’t know that you can drive a whole 15 mph on this road. And, plus, you look more scared than me of pulling over.
And over the hill.
And down the hill.
To where the creek behaves and runs beside the road instead of in it.
To the stop sign at the intersection with the hard road. Because there is a LOT of traffic and we need to STOP.
And out the winding hard road another 1/2 mile.
To the old farmhouse where the schoolbus stops.
And this girl will stomp up to your car window and say, “You are LATE! I’ve been WAITING for you! WHY are you LATE?”
And if I were you, I would totally say, “There was a tree across the road and I had to cut it down with a nail file and organize an army of ants to carry it away on their backs one speck at a time.”
Because I sure wouldn’t admit I was late cuz I’d been taking pictures.
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Comment #143 is Dava! (Click the Contact button at the top of the sidebar to email me!)
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Congratulations Dava!
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Congratulations, Dava!
-Kim
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The drive looks lovely!
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Blessings from Ohio…
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*if you’re coming down the hill and someone is coming up, you’ve got to move over and let ‘em by.
*the one closest to a wide spot on the flatter sections of road has to pull over or back up.
*if you ain’t from here, we’ll figure it out by the way you stop dead in the road when another vehicle approaches, or by the way you hog the entire road and keep on coming, assuming that of course you have the right to do so. We’ll move over or back up as needed, but you might not get the usual friendly wave. And you won’t know to do the thing listed next:
*if someone pulls over for you, you should wave or give a little tap on the horn to say thanks.
*you should never ever use other sign language when you get irritated with someone who ain’t from here and doesn’t know the rules.
*if you meet your neighbor on the road, you can both stop and talk until the next car comes. Then you should move on. Unless, of course, they get out of their car and join the conversation.
*if you see someone with car trouble, stuck in the ditch or whatever, you must stop to help. If you can’t help, you can commiserate or offer to go find someone with tractor and/or tools. You should never, ever simply wave and go by. That’s rude and your payback will come when you’re broke down, believe me.
*men must stop to look at deer. Women usually don’t bother–the deer are in the road enough to see them quite well. Some men will have head-on collisions in the middle of a one-lane dirt road with total traffic of about 20 cars a day because they’re looking at deer (ask my husband and the neighbor he met on our road). It’s safer to let them stop and look.
*men must try to get out if it snows or floods. They just must, I don’t know why. Even if they have nowhere to go, they will want to see if they can get through.
‘Course, this is Jackson County etiquette. Roane County might be a little different!
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I love your road. I sure wish mine looked like that rather than being a busy state highway.
Dava, who is still trying to learn how to use the cute little avatars!
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Lucky you. As you can tell… I would leave Arizona for just about any reason. Well. not prison. Prison is not on the list. No I won’t for that reason. I sure do like keeping up with your blog. Thanks.
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Did she buy the tree-across-the-road story?
Great, great pictures. My only thought was…oh, how pretty. Too bad I have allergies and would have gone over the cliff cuz I’d be sneezing my head off!
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I wouldn’t tell Princess I was taking pictures either. :eek: Do you mind if I adopt your rules for the roads around here? I really like them!
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Congrats, Dava!!!
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Congrats, Dava!
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Congratulations Dava!
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Congratulations Dava!