After a wonderful Thanksgiving in Somerville, MA visiting family, I contemplated the state of the infrastructure and road signage that we encountered during our drive both ways. Somerville has a lot of construction going on around I93 and a dearth of road signage. Trying to find out way from the family's apartment in western Somerville to our hotel in south-eastern Somerville was a challange which took in one case 90 minutes to go seven miles. Somerville uses blue background and white letters on street signs in some cases and a green background in others. None of the signs are reflective so after dark the signs seemingly disappear or cannot be read by us elderly folks. One sign in particular was the sign from the hotel to I93 south. The arrow pointed right and there were two choices separated by an inpentrable barrier. Which one to take? I took the widest one, which of course was the wrong one, and ther was no way to turn around and go back so I worked my way in a big circle back to the starting point and started off again, this time taking the narrow street. After about a mile, there it was, a tiny one square foot sign with an arrow pointing to the right for I93 south.. All told, the trip home was 28 miles longer that the trip there. The good news was that gasoline was only $1.87 per gallon in Somerville when compared the the $2.29 per gallon when I filled up before the trip.

Meanwhile, Thanksgiving dinner with our Scots cousin (a beautiful lass who is always a delight to be around) was wonderful and a great time was had by all. We caught up on the doings of our Scots relations and enjoyed great food and good wine.