So one has to wonder a lot of things about the road systems. The patterns for one. It's far too easy to get lost in the maze of directions, signs, turns, side roads and major ones, curves, etc. I could never expect a grid system, but sometimes the roads seem silly.

Of course, they had to be built around the geography. And most roads are likely old, old roads or paths that eventually got covered and maintained by the government when it went to making highways. But plenty had to be made later. So why all the curves? Didn't anyone ever think to straighten it out, or look at a specific area and say "this is a mess, how is anyone supposed to navigate this?"

Most of these aren't so bad, but having  a "back seat driver", even in the other front seat, can make it difficult to figure out where you're going far enough ahead of time to deal well with all the curves and turns and nonsense, reading signs while speaking, etc. But why did no one ever fix some of these? Is it that now that they're there, America has gotten bored and can only be bothered to maintain them (sometimes)? Everyone decided that new roads or alternative, more efficient routes are too much work? Is traffic too steady and much a face of life for rerouting for this to be a possibility? Not worth while or the money?

Perhaps I'm just complaining because I have trouble with directions still. xp