Corrections

Corrections

On Sunday’s post office adventure only one of them had me scratching my head trying to find it. Google maps directed my to an intersection where they thought it was, but all that was at the corner was a dilapidated looking house with a 6′ high chain link fence around. And the fence was a good thing too because not long after I stopped a big mean looking dog showed up and did a bit of growling.

I opened a browser on the phone, went to the USPS site and it had the same address, 320 E Main St., as I plugged into Google. I circled the block once hoping for something that might have changed. Nope. The guy in the neighboring house waved at me. I waved back and started rolling down the street. That’s when I noticed that I was in the 100 block of East Main Street. As I moved along I clocked that the numbers on my right side were even. Not much in the 200 block.

When I got to the 300 block the only thing on the correct side was a Sinclair gas station. As I cruised by I noticed a blue postal drop box outside. Bingo! Sure enough, inside was a small wall with Post Office Boxes and a small closed Dutch door. This is not the first time I’ve been misdirected by Google Maps while looking for post offices, so I shrugged it off and on to the next one.

While I was editing the photos to post them on this blog and Instagram I got to thinking, haven’t I seen something that says suggest an edit sometime when I look up an address? So I went back to Google Maps and there was a button for it. So I suggested an edit. Only took about an hour for them to make the change. 320 E Main now leads to the Sinclair gas station/post office, but for some reason there is still an icon saying that the post office is on that wrong corner.

Roadside America States & Corrections II

I have previously mentioned how many states I drove through on the 2025 Jumbo Road Trip (more on this later) and I wanted to really count how many states I took Roadside America photos in. So I went back to the start, April 18th and wrote down the name of every state where I took a RA photo all the way through June 17th. I came up 26 states. Wait a minute, when I did the Power Point presentation to put on Instagram the other day, one slide read: 70 ROADSIDE AMERICA PHOTOS IN 25 STATES?

So, I pulled up an image of a map of the lower 48 states and retraced my route filling in each state outline that I’d driven through. When I was done, I had filled in 31 states. Wait a minute, when I did the Power Point presentation to put on Instagram the other day, one slide read: DROVE THROUGH 31 STATES & 1 CANADIAN PROVINCE? Okay, I got that one right.

I looked at that filled in map. And realized that that when I visited Monument Valley I was in the north east corner of Arizona and although I didn’t count it in the RA photo count, it does have its own pin in the Arizona map on Roadside America. That means in fact that I took 70 Roadside America photos in 27 states. And I probably need to go back and add at least one more to that 70 total to make up for not counting Monument Valley.

I think that seventy figure came from me counting just how many Roadside America photos I posted to Instagram. Of the Roadside America photos I posted on the web page, that total comes to 82. If I count all the photos I took in total it is probably closer to 100, but I can’t give an exact figure because I’ve already gone through and deleted the ones I thought were crap.