Just for fun, I’ve put all of the responses, including
yours, in a word cloud.
I loved reading everyone’s responses. Some of us are currently traveling real or
metaphorical roads that are difficult, but nearly everyone had fond memories of
some road they have traveled.
Here are the responses of my extended family.
Question 1. Name or describe a road, path, or
highway for which you are thankful.
1.
The tunnel under the street that connects the warm Justice Center to the cold
parking lot
3.
Crystal Springs Path.
4.
The shortcut through the woods
5. I
think I’m most thankful for Centre Avenue. It contains one of my favorite
places on earth right now.
6.
The two roads that are always diverging.
In a wood. As in, "When
you come to a fork in the road, take it."
Yogi Berra also said, "Always go to other people's funerals;
otherwise they won't go to yours."
7.
Lake Shore Drive. Not the one in Chicago,
but the one in our own local park.
8. /Our
Street/ Drive. Because without it where would we live?
9.
Mandarin Duck Road
10.
Death Road to Canada
(The respondent informed me that this is a video game,
not a fanciful description of the Airline Road in Maine.)
11.
The Giant’s Causeway (in Northern Ireland)
12.
King’s Highway in Haddonfield, because it had wonderful shops, like Rosen’s
meat market where we could get a free hotdog.
And Neumayer’s sold comic books!)
13.
The Appalachian Trail
Question 2. In your childhood, how did you
travel to school?
1.
School bus, where I was the first stop on and the last stop off
2. I
walked.
3.
School bus. Car pool. Walk.
Bicycle. Drove a car.
4. I
walked!
5. I
traveled over plains, and mountains, going uphill both ways through 15 feet of
snow until I finally reached the 1-room log cabin where they held school
lessons for all the young’uns around.
6. We
were told, "You must always go down
to the light at Strathmore Avenue, to cross Park Heights Avenue", to walk
to school. But we never ever ever did
that - it was a full two blocks out of our way!
We always just ran across all 4 high-speed lanes of Park Heights at Pinkney
Ave, where there was no light.
7.
For elementary school I vaguely remember being in a car pool with other
kids. This involved mothers driving
station wagons full of loud children.
8. I
walked 10 miles each way uphill in the snow, just like everyone else.
9. #48
bus
10.
Silently
11.
By my feet and by my bicycle, carrying my violin in my left hand.
12.
By foot and by bicycle, carrying my violin in one hand.
13.
By walking, and then by bus
Bonus Question:
What is your favorite expression which includes the word “road”?
1. Keep in the middle of the road
3.
And when we both have had enough,
I will shake him from my shoe,
saying "Meet your new road."
4.
(no response)
5. I
like ‘Hit the road, Jack!’. It’s a good song.
6. A
voice cries:
“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord,
Make straight
in the desert a highway for our God.
7.
“You’ll take the high road, and I’ll take the low road, and I’ll get to
Scotland before you.” (For the dark side of this seemingly light-hearted song, listen here.)
8. Road hog!
King of the road
Road to paradise
Road warrior
On the road again...
9. I'm
on the road.
11.
“I used the road less traveled.”
12.
“May the road rise to greet you.”
13.
“If you see a fork in the road, take it.”
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| Two chocolate roads diverged in a gingerbread wood... |
