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