No, we do that too--you will almost never get the answer to that question in miles.? I meant this strictly from a road sign standpoint.? I'm trying to think if I ever saw a sign for Lancaster at all.? York is pretty well marked the whole way down, but I don't remember seeing a sign saying how far away Lancaster is. I just thought that was really odd--normally the next major town will have road signs marking the distance, but that wasn't the case, here. Particularly once the road splits and you either have to go to downtown York or follow the sign that says "Route 30 West--Lancaster"--that's pretty much it.? No more signs.? Maybe they never got replaced after the construction.? I mean, I knew where I was, obviously, but I'm sure there would be some people who wonder if they took the correct turn. But no, we give the time measurement for distance, too.? Ask how far away Pittsburgh is and you will always get "about two?hours" and never "60 miles." --Debra -----Original Message----- From: Karen Fox <karenmfox@verizon.net> To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 9:15 am Subject: [PD-LIFE] Lancaster Deb wrote: "What is interesting about this particular stretch of road is, in neither direction do they tell you how far apart these two cities are.? Once you follow the instructions for "this way to Lancaster" or "this way to York" there is not a single sign saying how many miles away either one of them is.? I thought that was weird." LOL Deb, around these parts we don't measure distance in miles. That's just not practical. We measure distance in the time it takes to get from point A to Point B. Such as "Ephrata is 15 minutes south". I noticed that in my childhood. Then when I went to Penn State, it was one way to determine where a fellow student was from - if they answered a "how far is it to...?" question in miles they were from Western PA. If their answer was the time it would take you to get there, inevitably they were from Eastern PA. Much more practical in my opinion. A destination may be 15 miles down the road, but with all the construction backups it might be a 45 minute journey. Also traveling 15 miles over straight open highway or 15 miles over windy narrow country roads behind a buggy give far different outcomes in the time it takes you to arrive at your destination, even though you're traveling the same distance. ;-) ~Karen from Berks ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.

LOL!!!! Yes, we either say in how many minutes/hours, if we are REALly taking a trip, or even just going shopping, but we say it in miles, if we talk about "as the crow flies" :o) So, from here, to visit my in-laws, it will take us tomorrow after church, 30 minutes or so to get there :o) I have NO idea how many miles it is to my in-laws, nor to get back to Shillington/Mohnton area. But, I do know it takes about 45 minutes, to an hour to get from here to the Reading area :o) Well, I don't know how long anymore since everything changed, maybe it's shorter to get to Shillington/Mohnton area? :o) Lynn PS I just thought of something, Karen. We've almost lived in the same areas as one another all through our lives :o) Karen from my hometown and almost exactly where I lived before moving here wrote: LOL Deb, around these parts we don't measure distance in miles. That's just not practical. We measure distance in the time it takes to get from point A to Point B. Such as "Ephrata is 15 minutes south". I noticed that in my childhood. Then when I went to Penn State, it was one way to determine where a fellow student was from - if they answered a "how far is it to...?" question in miles they were from Western PA. If their answer was the time it would take you to get there, inevitably they were from Eastern PA. Much more practical in my opinion. A destination may be 15 miles down the road, but with all the construction backups it might be a 45 minute journey. Also traveling 15 miles over straight open highway or 15 miles over windy narrow country roads behind a buggy give far different outcomes in the time it takes you to arrive at your destination, even though you're traveling the same distance. ;-)