Words up!

The saying is something like "Every picture is worth a thousand words." I know you probably don't want me to ramble on with that much writing so I'll keep my picture's stories quite a bit shorter that 1000 words.

I'm not sure how it is where you are from, but we haven't seen these throw-change-in-'em toll booths in a while. It was fun to hurl money out of the car. The story here is that while taking this picture, the "Paid Thank You!" sign turned back into a "Toll $1.50" sign. Not wanting to risk any sort of ticket, we hurled another $1.50 into the machine. So this picture (and accompanying story) wound up costing us $1.50...

Click on the "Read more" for a few more random pics and stories?

Had to get a picture of my new friend Cicada we saw crawling on the sidewalk at night. Won't get another chance for what, like 19 years or something?

Rented a car for a few days and saw this funny tag in the trunk. I guess if you were locked inside, and could see in the dark to find this and read it, you could pull this and escape. Kudos to the artist here because somehow, the little stick-figure guy looks soooo happy!

Just when you think New York City is overcoming it's association with rude attitudes you see something like this. "HEY! You got an emergency?! What you thought we'd be open?" (imagine saying that with the accent maybe?)