Mileposts

I like milepost signs...or in this case kilometer post signs. 

We were right on the arctic circle line, and this post marked distances to various locations. We were over 5000 km from New Delhi or 7000+km from Tokyo. North, south, east or west, the markers indicated world cities and their distance from a tiny Finnish town at the arctic circle. 

The first time I paid real attention to milepost markers was in Invercargill, New Zealand, as far south in NZ as you can get. There were 4 poles put up by the auto club on the last scrap of NZ land that showed distances and directions to various locations around the world. Since then I've taken pictures of them from Antarctica to Africa. For some reason I find them fascinating. Some are in kilometers some are in miles, they all convey a subtle message that we want to stay connected with each other.