Yesterday, I drove to Yale OK from Muskogee, thinking I would find Underwood Rd easily, but didn't see a sign. Decided to fuel up my car and asked the lady about Underwood Rd. Looking puzzled she finally decided it was that way, pointing east. So I drove 3 blocks that way and didn't see it. Yale is barely more than 1200 population, so if I went one more block I'd be out-of-town. I turned onto the next street and it was handy to stop and ask a man in a parked SUV.

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When traveling in England, I would go to the bus station and take the first coach scheduled to leave if the first stop wasn't too far away. I think it was in Exeter, I met a man and his college age daughter who were touring around in a car with the ultimate destination a small town in Scotland. I joined them agreeing to pay part of the fuel costs and we headed for Land's End before the trip north. He was a professor at an Illinois university on a year's sabbatical and she was a student.
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