A reference to Jackie Gleason's classic comedy, "The Honeymooners," was lost on one rider who, fuming over an apparent grammatical gaffe, decided that Mileposts was written by illiterates.
"That was a milepost of consciousness.
In front of the dome, someone has planted the standard jokey symbol of isolation, a milepost that shows Kangerlussuaq, the nearest town, to be nine hundred kilometres away.
From Galax it's about two hours to Blowing Rock, N.C., a sophisticated tourist town at Milepost 292 that's built around a jutting rock atop a cliff where the wind blows hard and often.
For that, you need The Milepost, an annual guide that lists campgrounds, gas stations, restaurants and so on, mile by mile.
For there is an abundance of signs this fall that Russia has reached -- at long last -- a crucial milepost that East Europeans attained in the mid-1990's: the status of a growing, politically stable and hopeful nation.
"If the operator is at a console and it comes on his screen that there's an incident on 287 at milepost 10.4, he will point a camera over there, and then we'll get a response to exactly what's needed," Mr. FitzPatrick said.
One milepost that Sally didn't mention is this: It is the week of your thirtieth birthday, and instead of sitting in a wheelchair, you are hitchiking along Virginia Beach Boulevard after selling your car.
Graveyard Fields (at Milepost 418.8) offers a good break from driving with a moderate loop hiking trail that delivers you, 2 1/2 miles later, to another H20 beauty, Yellowstone Falls.
Just past the turnoff for the Craggy Gardens Recreation Area at Milepost 364.6, take a left into the lot at Craggy Pinnacle.
