SIGNSPOTTING
compiled by Doug Lansky
Lonely Planet, Footscray (Victoria, Australia), 2005
This page includes only 8 of hundreds in the book. Nevertheless, if anything on this page
infringes copyright, please let me know and I will remove the offending picture[s]

• Fitness escalator    • Sand   • Question mark   • Smart signs   • Ancient airport  
 • Temporary sign     • Forest closes   • Translating prohibited

Photo: William Brown. Location: San Diego, USA.
"Hey, it's Southern California. You don't break a sweat until you have to."

I bet these health freaks, on the escalator with their sporty shoulder bags and expensive sneakers, drove their SUVs into the fitness centre car park. Inside they'll doubtless use treadmills and other energy-hungry machines to work out. Then they'll drive their gas-guzzling containers back home or to the office where they'll take they'll take the lift (elevator) to the nth floor. Why don't they walk, run or bike wherever they need to go and why don't they walk up the stairs instead. Then they wouldn't need the fitness centre, its escalators or its machines.

Photo: Nathan Brown. Location: Southwest Namibia
“Tourists have probably been wondering what all that yellowish grainy stuff is that they've been driving through for hours”.

Photo by Tord Nyberg. Location: Zeman, Israel.
“There's something over there but we're not sure what it is”.

Photo by Larry Kavanagh. Location: St Louis Obispo, California, USA.

Photo:John Griffen. Location: Waianapana National Park, Hawaii, USA
“They're stull excavating lost luggage.”

Photo: Russel Poniewax, Location: Dublin, Irish Republic.
“Locals are anxiously awaiting the new Permanent Sign”...

Photo: Joel M Chusio. Location: Karlstejn Castle, Praha, Czech Republic.