At the police
station, the staff was, again, very complacent.
First, they kindly sent me to
another station, saying that the parking of the tow-away service wasn't under
their jurisdiction, but then they gave up because the car had been in their
district before being towed-away. A young black woman in a dark-blue uniform
unwillingly wrote the report and gave me the copy. Maybe it would help!
With a delay of several hours, we finally started
our voyage, but on the road, life wasn’t too easy for us either. In America, the road signs don't show the names of the
cities that they lead to, but the numbers of the highways. It sometimes drove
me to desperation. On a highway out of New York, you’ll never see written that
it leads to Washington or to Miami, instead you can read marks like: I 95
south, US82 west, Hwy.122 east, and so on. The interstate highways, from the
East to the West Coast, are marked with even numbers, while those going from
the north to the south are marked with odd numbers. Near towns, the roads get
an additional mark: an even number, if they bypass the centre, and an odd number, if they go
through the town. So I 95 can temporarily become I 495 or I 595.
to be continued
text & photo:
Janin