Comments on: There’s something strange about Neath

By: Jas

Jas — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:18:44 +0000

I’m less troubled by the magic of Neath than I am by John having a coffee immediately before a nap! I’m sure I’d be having all manner of odd dreams if I did manage to doze off.

By: Mage Bailey

Mage Bailey — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:07:23 +0000

Can we have pictures of this surrealistic Neath one of these days?

By: Kate & Jim

Kate & Jim — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:51:49 +0000

I can never figure out one of our towns here either. Every time Jim and I go there I have to keep asking him – “Is it this turn or the next”? “This street”? Aye Yi Yi! I’ve only been going there most of my life!

By: gary

gary — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:29:18 +0000

DOLLY!

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:10:28 +0000

I would be afraid to venture from the two roads I know back home.

By: Mary Lee McClure

Mary Lee McClure — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:06:23 +0000

I never thought I’d finally get the hang of Greensboro, North Carolina. I was forever veering right or left and gettiing all lost. They seem to lvve streets and roads that diverge at angles, none of them right angles! One day, in exasperation, I shrieked, who on earth laid out these streets, the local cows? Turned out that was pretty close to the truth. I read that they HAD actually just used paths made by both humans and animals leading from a to b, and voila! Greensboro’s street system, about as far from a grid as one can get. Exaggerated a bit, but not too much!

By: JIM METCALF

JIM METCALF — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:44:37 +0000

Sounds familiar. Lived here for 10 years and still get lost on one road. I am supposed to go straight ahead on it and I always turn off of it and get LOST.

By: ~ Sil in Corea

~ Sil in Corea — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:37:54 +0000

Yes, there is one subway station, Nonhyon, in which I frequently get “turned around” and get on the wrong train. I think it’s because, after a series of 90 degree corridors and stairs, there are two 180 degree turns with escalators involved. I have to read the signs VERY carefully before taking the last escalator down to the platform.

By: wayne

wayne — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:12:59 +0000

I used to get lost in Waco, Texas. Now I avoid it like the plague. It’s a small but strangely twisted town.

By: Becky

Becky — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:57:49 +0000

I’ve lived around here for over 30 years, and there are places on the outskirts of town where I always get lost. I wonder if the planners here came to the US from Neath.