There's a lomng road that runs from the highland city of Guadalajara, down hills and over lakes and past volcanoes and on and on to reach the Pacific coast and there is a stretch of that road that lasts for scores of miles with nothing built on it and no signage. It is really quite pretty. Not at all like American freeways with their overabundance of synthetic information. Anyway, you drive and drive without seeing a sign and then way up at the horizon, lo! there seems to be a sign. You can't wait to see what it could say! You drive and drive and sure enough the silhouette grows larger and it really is a traffic sign, the only one around for over fifty miles in either direction. And all it says is "Please Obey Traffic Signs".

Only in Mexico.


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