The road sign city name photo game

[7/8]

Laugaland, Iceland to Durham, ON (on Grey/Simcoe CR 124 at Grey Road 4 in Singhampton):

[formulanone]

Durham (ON) -> Milo (Maine)

[US71]

Milo --> Oil City, LA

[SD Mapman]

Y Rule: Oil City, LA -> Belcher, LA -> Rock Springs, WY

[kphoger]

Milo --> Oil City, LA

I don't see anything about this in the OP rules, but...  That sign has already been used, both for Oil City and for Belcher.

Can we reuse signs in this game?

Asheboro --> Oil city, LA

Oil City, LA to Belcher to Richelieu, QC (on A-10):

[7/8]

I'll keep the game going for now.

Rock Springs, WY to Sheho, SK (on TCH 16):

[SD Mapman]

I'll keep the game going for now.

Rock Springs, WY to Sheho, SK (on TCH 16):

I mean it's back to "O" anyway, so in the long run it really doesn't matter. Depends only if we want to use those signs again!

[formulanone]

Sheho -> Orient (SD):

[7/8]

I mean it's back to "O" anyway, so in the long run it really doesn't matter. Depends only if we want to use those signs again!

Lol, good point!

Orient, SD to Tartu, Estonia (taken in Tallinn near the ferry terminal) (sign previously used for Narva):

[Henry]

Tartu => Urbana, IA:

[SD Mapman]

Urbana, IA -> Abilene, KS

Sheho -> Orient (SD):

As someone whose ancestral roots are in that part of the state, I'm sorry you had to go out there (especially in the winter!).

[kphoger]

ABILENE  →  EAST NORWALK (Connecticut)


[by AARoads and/or Carter Buchanan]

[SD Mapman]

East Norwalk, CT -> Kennebec, SD

[7/8]

Nice play! Kennebec, SD to Cincinnati, OH (on I-275 at I-74 in Miamitown):

[kphoger]

CINCINNATI  →  IRKUTSK (Siberia)


[from... uhh... Restaurant Guru, of all places]


swapped photo to include Latin script

[SD Mapman]

I refuse to let this die on K

Irkutsk -> Kansas City, MO (lots of alternatives for the Y rule here)

[kphoger]

I refuse to let this die on K

  I try to play ones with less-than-common ending letters, to give people the chance to play something they might have been sitting on.  So K must be a bad one?

I don't want to sift through a couple hundred pages of the thread to find the answer to this:  what letters have been the least-frequently in play?

[7/8]

Kansas City, MO to Des Moines, IA to St-Benoît-du-Lac, QC (my third time playing this town, but of course, each photo/sign is different):

I refuse to let this die on K

  I try to play ones with less-than-common ending letters, to give people the chance to play something they might have been sitting on.  So K must be a bad one?

I don't want to sift through a couple hundred pages of the thread to find the answer to this:  what letters have been the least-frequently in play?

Personally, I'd say some of the best letters to give someone are B, C, F, J, Q, and V.

[kphoger]

Cool.  Then let's thrown in a Q.

ST-BENOÃŽT-DU-LAC  →  CUCQ (Pas-de-Calais, France)


[from Wikimedia Commons user Floflo62]

[Scott5114]

In the future, let's stick with Latin script only, please. Cyrillic and Greek are usually easy enough to figure out, but I don't want this to turn into a thing where someone posts something in Urdu or Mongolian or something and doesn't provide a transliteration, or there's two different ways to transliterate it and people argue about it, or there's a letter that represents a phoneme we don't have in English so it's questionable which letter the game should continue from, etc.

Of course, if a sign includes a city name in both the local script and Latin (as Ukrainian signage and most Russian signage closer to Europe tends to do), you're welcome to use the transliteration the sign provides.

[JayhawkCO]

I don't want this to turn into a thing where someone posts something in Urdu or Mongolian or something and doesn't provide a transliteration.

Well then clearly you need to find another Afghani or Mongolian city that starts with the same letter.   

[kphoger]

In the future, let's stick with Latin script only, please. Cyrillic and Greek are usually easy enough to figure out, but I don't want this to turn into a thing where someone posts something in Urdu or Mongolian or something and doesn't provide a transliteration, or there's two different ways to transliterate it and people argue about it, or there's a letter that represents a phoneme we don't have in English so it's questionable which letter the game should continue from, etc.

Of course, if a sign includes a city name in both the local script and Latin (as Ukrainian signage and most Russian signage closer to Europe tends to do), you're welcome to use the transliteration the sign provides.

Fixed.

CINCINNATI  →  IRKUTSK (Siberia)


[from... uhh... Restaurant Guru, of all places]


swapped photo to include Latin script

[Bruce]

Luckily a quiet quarter of Washington has quite a few Q names.

Cucq -> Quinault Village on the Moclips Highway

[hbelkins]

Quinalt Village to East Glacier

2021 Western road trip Day 4 - 159 by H.B. Elkins, on Flickr

[SD Mapman]

East Glacier, MT -> Rexburg, ID