Taking the Low Road

Signs aren’t always visible from both directions.

Get used to rubber-necking it. When you see the back of a sign on the opposite side of the road, as soon as you pass it, quickly whip around and read it.

We learned this the hard way on our first trip to Scotland. We must’ve driven the same road [...]

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Streets change names.

If you live on our East Coast in an older city or town that sort of evolved higgledy-piggledy over the two or three centuries of our nation’s brief history, then you’re already accustomed to this.
We live in the West, where most towns were carefully platted in nice, neat squares. Newly annexed properties and [...]

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Here’s the disclaimer right up front. My husband and I have traveled in the British Isles for a total of 17 weeks. Our tips our strictly our tips; they’re what we learned – sometimes the hard way – from our driving experiences. They’re not a compilation of anything we’ve read in any tour guide or friends’ [...]

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