On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 08:06:50 +0900, "Ryan Ginstrom"
<ginstrom@hotmail.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

>
>"Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
>news:3FDDDE99.C1B9766E@yahoo.co.jp...
>> "John W." wrote:
>> > Having said that, I once wound up on a freeway by mistake. The road just
>> > became a freeway. Hard to explain.
>>
>> You missed seeing the toll gate going in?
>
>Assuming he meant expressway, there are some places where suddenly you're on
>that elevated thingy with no escape, then hit the toll gate a few km later.

Although road signage in Japan can be screwy, I have never encountered
a location like that where it wasn't clearly indicated that the road
was a toll road *before* you lose the chance to avoid it.




--

Michael Cash

"Tom Cruise saves late 19th Century Japan from creepy politicians and creeping
Westernization in "The Last Samurai," another Hollywood epic that shows that 
nobody embodies the nobility of an exotic foreign culture like a visiting white 
guy."

                                John Beifuss