A fascination with roads

I have always admired roads - the winding, twisting-narrow-lane kind of roads one finds outside the city that lead to very specific places (often not where I thought I was going) and the broad, safe, smooth roads that give us passage from one city to another. Some of them are blasted through the thick walls of the Canadian Shield; some follow rivers through valleys; and some have been cut through miles upon miles of forest. Roads amaze me (sometimes they also form mazes for me).

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