Eyes on the road

Today we achieved not-very-much. However, for the first full week, we've achieved quite a bit and are slightly ahead of schedule.

We had dinner with our American colleagues, and found the answer to two questions we had about American roads. Firstly, what the "meter on" signs meant, which we saw flashing for the first time by the side of a slip road onto the motorway, on our journey into work this morning. Apparently it's a warning that the traffic lights that "meter" cars onto the "freeway" like this (not my photo - it's in Colorado, but looks similar) are switched on. Secondly, at night, on all sorts of roads, but not every road, we had noticed a blue cat's eye every so often - slightly offset to the right of the other white ones between lanes. This is apparently a signal to the emergency services that there is a fire hydrant on the edge of the road.

Alex is meeting us at 9am tomorrow for a bit of a walk.