Closed Underpasses

Let me tell you a little story about a 3 hour tour. A tour that took much longer than expected. No, I didn't end up on an island with an interesting cast of characters, I'm sure there were interesting characters, I just had no intention of stopping to talk to them. It all started with a detour sign. Wait, no, it really started because of a missing detour sign.

Let me first explain the little town of Gasden, Alabama. It's a nifty little place. Every town in America should take cues from Gasden and have its major 4 lane road through town make 2 right angle turns and go under a train overpass. The fun of my story starts because that underpass was closed. I don't know why, but it was. So they had a detour around town. Sounds simple follow the signs, get to where I want to go. Right? Right.

Well I followed the detour, until I ran out of signs. I had a lovely tour of the country side. Pretty trees, Kudzu, flowers, junk yards, race fans, and no street sign that made any sense. I've never had such serious thoughts about paying for the on-star service in my truck as I did yesterday. Thanks to wonderful directions from my loving wife I made it to my destination. Not the exact trip I had planned on taking, but I made it.

I looked on the way back, taking the detour in reverse, and I see where I should have turned, would have been great to have a sign. Off to work I go, lots to do.