Back to my thoughts about Israel vs. the rest of the world… Let’s talk about roads – cars and drivers are a worthy topic as well, which I will blog about another time.
Infrastructure is perhaps the easiest thing to note. In America we were faced with huge intersections and interchanges and interhighways or whatever. Honestly, I found them to be more confusing than helpful, myself. IsraeliDad loved them, so to each his own, I guess.
Lots of asphalt around LA, no doubt. The roads overall are good, but we have come across miles and miles of roads in Arizona and Nevada that looked like they could use another layer of asphalt. I have to say, with not a little bit of local-patriotism, that the condition of most roads in Israel isn’t that bad in comparison.
England gives you a whole new perspective of what a road even is. The highways are just fine – wide and basically well maintained. The magic happens once you get to the country side. Suddenly, paths that I would hardly consider passable show up as bona fide roads on our GPS maps. Looking for my brother’s home in a small village in Straffordshire, IsraeliDad thought the GPS had gone crazy and was taking us off the road and through people’s driveways… We kept wondering what would happen if, God forbid, another vehicle shows up ahead of us? You see, the roads aren’t only extremely narrow and winding, they are also tightly squeezed between thick bushy hedges on both sides. Miraculously, we never encountered anyone and so managed to make are way through.
