Side Of The Road

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These little center islands always make me wonder when the last time a human stepped on that piece of land (i.imgur.com)

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

As a young and naive teenager I hitchhiked from Enschede to Breda in the Netherlands.

At one point I was dropped off at the flyover intersection between two freeways in the middle of nowhere - inasmuch as that is actually possible in the Netherlands.

I stood there with my thumb up for quite a while and looking around me considered just how much humanity had interfered and interacted with the landscape, roads, lights, fences, dikes, pastures, crops, all around as far as the eye could see.

In stark contrast, I now live in Australia and you can drive between where I live in Perth and an inland city, Kalgoorlie, about 600 km away. Pull over on the side of the road between towns and walk 50m off the road and there's a good chance that you're the first person to stand there in a century, if not a millennium or ever.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 months ago

Same in Canada.

...

Suddenly I really want to take my car and drive away.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

Pull over on the side of the road between towns and walk 50m off the road and there's a good chance that you're the first person to stand there in a century, if not a millennium or ever.

You don't understand how long a century / millennium is. People pull off the road to pee all the time, plus people were obviously there when the road was built. Add in hikers and stranded motorists and I bet every piece of ground near that highway has had a person step on it (except for something on the side of a mountain or something).