I would like some real thoughts on this one
2007-03-10 15:40:59 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Other - Destinations
Only someone who was not around when the road "began" would wonder. For those of us who are as old as the hills, we have seen many roads begin, and some end, so it's really a matter of where you are on the 'road' of life.
2007-03-10 15:58:39 · answer #1 · answered by Yarnlady_needsyarn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK, I will treat this as a real question, not as a joke.
I guess it is all relative, isn't it? If you are building a road, of course, it "begins" where you begin to lay pavement or concrete or asphalt, and "ends" when you end laying it, and where you stop.
If it is the Federal Government building a new freeway, it begins and ends where the plans for the freeway say it should. Actually, it can begin on both ends at the same time, or somewhere in the middle, and spread out to reach both ends sometime in the future, maybe years from now.
Occasionally, they open a portion of the freeway or Interstate in the middle somewhere, or whenever they finish part, with a big ceremony. That is the beginning, whereever it is. I suppose the elected officials cut a ribbon later when it officially opens the other end.
When the transcontinental railroad was finished, they had the ceremony at Promontory Point, Utah, in the middle of the line, when the track from the east met the track coming from the west. So THAT is where it ended--and connected.
Conceptually, Americans like to think that all roads begin in the East, and end at the Pacific. That is the way our country developed ...east to west. So things begin in the East, and finish in the West. We remember the old song about "Route 66"--and say that it began in Chicago, and ended in Los Angeles. But that is the conventional thinking; if you are travelling east, it begins in California, and heads east until it ends where you want it to end.
Where is the end of the road? I guess philosophically it ends when you stop. As long as you keep going, you have not reached the end, even though you change directions, or even turn around. The road travels ever ONWARD, wherever you take it, in whatever direction.
May you find your own road. And remember, it is the journey itself, not the destination that is the reason to travel.
2007-03-11 00:13:30 · answer #2 · answered by JOHN B 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and sometimes I take a road just to see where it goes.
BTW, Route 50 is probably the longest road in America, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
2007-03-10 23:47:24 · answer #3 · answered by opjames 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At a Dead End?
2007-03-10 23:49:51 · answer #4 · answered by zan j 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋