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Show by Marcella Walker I've been thinking, and that is a dangerous thing for me to do because I do it so rarely. No, really! I am watching what is happening on 1-15 and I am picturing how nice it is going to be when it is finished. Right now it is sometimes a pain in the you-know-what but I keep thinking about how it is going to look when it is all do ne. However, is a big highway like; that ever really done? Every where you go they are working on the roads. Summer Sum-mer is called "working on the roads; time". We drove from Pleas.ant Grove to Madison, Wisconsin in September. Summer Sum-mer h'. close to being over in September. However, they were working on the roads everywhere. every-where. We were on the freeway sometimes and on country roads other times and they were all being be-ing worked on. Sometimes you have to make detours. I mean detours with a big "D". That is the way to get to see this country! Try taking the detours sometimes and you see lots of country and a lot of it is sure a lot better to see than what you see along the freeway. Of course there are waits. On two lane roads in Iowa you can wait a day and a half for them to let the other lane through so that your lane can go on the same lane of pavement the other direction traffic used. But, the wait isn't too bad when you look across the fields of corn and wheat and other nice things and see Mother Nature doing her thing so well. When we were in Iowa in September the ears of corn were still on the stalks because many farmers wait for the corn to all dry up and then they harvest it and use it for feed com for the animals. Why do the animals have to have hard old dried up corn? I like it nice and fresh with bright yellow kernels and lots of salt and butter. Everywhere we looked there were acres and acres of corn drying on the stalk. What are they waiting for? It already was dried up and no one was getting any good out of it and there were miles and miles of dried up corn. Anyway, that is off the subject of the highways and how many of them are torn up all Summer and most of the Fall. By the way, we like to drive up American Fork Canyon and Provo Canyon a'nd look at the scenery and it has been very nice this Fall. And they have been working on the Provo Canyon Can-yon road for some time, widening widen-ing the road up by the dam and I think they eventually will have it all widened clear up to where it joins 1-80 which goes all the way to the East Coast, I think Roads all over are being worked on and even though Winter is on its way any day now, the roads will continue to be worked on, especially 1-15 in our area. But it will be great when it is done. I will say this, however, I think they are doing a great job of working around the traffic on 1-15 and they deserve de-serve a big pat on the back for how hard they work to improve things for us. Happy driving!! |