Roads and stuff

Roads and Such
I should just give you readers my impression on some of the roads we have encountered here in the Northwest:
1. Frost heaves are caused from the permafrost melting under the road surface. The melting causes the surface to dip and the refreezing causes it to uplift. It is always better to place a marker at the area of frost heaves than to fix them.
2. Potholes in the surface of the roadway are fixed by throwing gravel and sand into them but there should be another pothole shortly which is not fixed.
3. There are always more potholes on your side of the road than the other side.
4. This country has the largest and longest mountain climbs to be made in a car and the steepest (12% grade was the worst so far and 6-8% not uncommon. Remember the following when climbing a mountain.
a. The mountain you are coming down will always precede a steeper and longer mountain you must climb.
b. The mountain you are coming down will always end in the following manner:
1. A sharp turn to the right
2. A sharp turn to the left.
3. A town or village with a 25 mph speed limit.
4. Going up a long mountain you will inevitably have a sports car behind you wondering if you are ever going to speed up.
5. Going down the mountain you will have either a logging truck, large gravel truck or some other such vehicle on your tail.

5. The beauty of the scenery around you is directly proportional to the severity of the road conditions around you thus leaving the driver to white knuckle the steering wheel, brakes and gas so as not to see any of it.
6. The quality of the road is inversely proportional to how close it is to either a road maintenance facility or town border.
7. Signs are meant to cause confusion to the driver when they can be read and otherwise placed behind a tree or other visual obstacle when they can.
8. All important signs for directions when in a town or populated area should if possible be placed next to advertising signs which are much larger and colorful so as to obscure the directional sign.

I really in truth think that the areas we have been in try to do their very best to maintain the roads they have under extreme conditions (-40 below in winter with no daylight and snow ). The crews seem to work 24 hours a day in summer.