Lost!

[rabidsamfan]

No, no, not the TV show. Me, trying to find my way from downtown Boston to East Boston by following the signs to the airport.

Some of you will understand why I ended up in Dorchester.

THE STREETS IN THIS TOWN WERE LAID OUT BY COWS!!!! DRUNKEN COWS!!!!!!

And the signage was done by demented "Bert and I" fans.

Comments

[jewelsong.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahahahaha!

I think I've gone that route. Once I tried to drive ConnieMarie to the airport and ended up at the Bunker Hill monument.

Driving in Boston is truly not for the weak.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I believe it. If you can get on the pike, it's easy now, but that's just what you can't do from downtown. I should have looped around the North End and cut through the Callahan, but noooo, I had to follow the signs...

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

hahaha.

You should see Houston.

haha. Houston, we definitely had a problem. We were lost every minute of the time we were there this summer.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I knew exactly where I was! I just didn't know how to change where I was into where I wanted to be.

Ten minutes to go pick up the car from my house via subway. An hour and ten minutes to find my way home again.

::headdesk::

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

Yep, I lived in Houston for 8 years. Fortunately, I didn't have a car for 4 of them - I walked or took the bus everywhere.

Metro - you can get there from here...

[celandine-g.livejournal.com]

I can SO relate.

Once when I lived in rural CT, I was within sight of a building in downtown Boston(financial district) 45 minutes before a scheduled job interview and I encountered a closed street. I ended up 45 minutes late for the interview, after driving all over the city trying to get back to the place by another route and then encountering closed parking garages. I walked in livid, flushed, and very late for this important interview at a very plush investment company. Needless to say, I didn't get the job. They doubtless thought I was a bumbling provincial, hehe.

Since living in the suburbs here I have had similar horror stories including being so lost in downtown Boston at night that I just drove around aimlessly for about 40 minutes just trying to find a way out. I ended up in Cambridge not even knowing I was there. I have since had similar experiences in South Boston near the convention center at night--a real nightmare of detours that go no nowhere and signs pointing into oblivion. To say nothing of horrible late-night traffic jams (because they work on the torn-up roads at night) that rival rush hour. And it never seems to end. That area around the aquarium has been torn up since 1773, I believe.

As for the airport, I never even attempted to drive there myself until they opened the direct route from the Pike (I wouldn't dare try the route through the city). Now that new tunnel is nice and sometimes the parking garages at the airport are even open. But that's another story, hehe.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I started from the parking garage by the Aquarium, and believe me, I understand the feeling of being able to see your destination and not get there. It's safer to accept the parking ticket...

(This is why I don't own a car. I was picking up a zipcar so I'll have it first thing in the morning.)

[dreamflower]

You want a place that's impossible to get around in? New Orleans--and no I don't mean *now* after the storm, I mean *before*. All the streets you need to go down are one way--the wrong way. I tried for ages to get to a certain park for an SCA event many years ago; I could *see* it, I knew where it was, I just couldn't *get* to it. And the drivers there are just about the worst anywhere. If you try to leave a reasonable gap between yourself and the car ahead of you, inevitably the driver behind you thinks you are saving the space for him. No matter that it barely is room enough for him to squeeze in.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

To get to my house, which is on a one way street, you have to go past several one way streets, and do they alternate, left right left right left the way you'd expect a logical system to operate? Noooo. They go left right left left left right right left right right... And then you fall into the ocean, so everything is fine.

[blackbird-song.livejournal.com]

I can so relate to this! I have been lost many times in Boston, though not in as concentrated a fashion as I was in Houston when I was there for a few days in June, and it is utterly frustrating getting funneled onto the wrong road, knowing exactly what happened, and being totally unable to change the situation there. It's easier for me, living out of town and having to use the Pike, to get to Logan than it is when I have to spend the night in Boston beforehand.

And I agree about the inebriated state of the cows when they designed the roads. Disgraceful, really, though I'm sure that their milk, when added to sufficiently strong coffee, would make a nice, crude version of a mudslide.

Catherine

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

The Big Dig, as near as I can tell, has only made the situation worse. Only now you have the opportunity to be lost underground for the entire length of down town instead of being trapped on the bridge looking longingly at the building you can't get to.

[unhobbityhobbit.livejournal.com]

Some of you will understand why I ended up in Dorchester.

You managed to drive many miles along the bottom of the sea to emerge in a different country and you didn't realise? Now really, can you blame that all on the layout of the roads?

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

No. I blame the cows...

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

You are safely home again, I suppose? *smiles*

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Ayuh. Had the car for twenty four hours, so I went tearing around doing errands today like a mad thing. Finally home now, and am going to check my flist before I tip over.

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

Oh, I remember so well the first time I tried to drive anywhere in Boston. I was trying to find a restaurant in the North End, where I was meant to meet an aunt and a cousin for dinner. I ended up halfway to New Hampshire. Twice. Then gave up.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

That's not quite as easy as it used to be, but you can still visit lovely Charlestown or Cambridge...

[rosiegardener.livejournal.com]

oh yes, I do understand. We spent only a couple of days at Boston during our honeymoon but other than days we spent a lot of money for the toll booths since we somehow always ended up going through them twice...

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

You were in Boston? Alas, that I didn't know you then. I hope you had a good time in spite of the tolls!

[lindelea1.livejournal.com]

THE STREETS IN THIS TOWN WERE LAID OUT BY COWS!!!! DRUNKEN COWS!!!!!!

But at least they were contented cows.

[(Anonymous)]

Moo!

[kimbys-place.livejournal.com]

It was likely the same drunken cows that lay out the average mall parking lot. Who wants to go to Philadelphia by way of Pittsburgh? All aboard!