Saturday, May 21, 2005
The Alaska Highway
Our first stop was Watson Lake, home of the Signpost Forest. This roadside attraction is a collection of 54,000 license plates, stolen town signs, home-made wooden signs, and bumper stickers from travelers from all over the world. The idea was created by a homesick, young army soldier who was working on the Alaska Highway in 1942. He put up a sign showing the distance from Watson Lake to his home town in Illinois. Over the years, people traveling the highway have added their own signs. It is a pretty amazing sight and we were pretty bummed out that we hadn’t brought anything from Amsterdam.
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Aan mijn kant van Amsterdam staat nog zo'n mooi bord: Kernwapen vrije gemeente met zonnebloem of margietje uit de aren tachtig. Dat wil ik er toch nog eens afschroeven.
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