As a young and naive teenager I hitchhiked from Enschede to Breda in the Netherlands.
At one point I was dropped off at the flyover intersection between two freeways in the middle of nowhere - inasmuch as that is actually possible in the Netherlands.
I stood there with my thumb up for quite a while and looking around me considered just how much humanity had interfered and interacted with the landscape, roads, lights, fences, dikes, pastures, crops, all around as far as the eye could see.
In stark contrast, I now live in Australia and you can drive between where I live in Perth and an inland city, Kalgoorlie, about 600 km away. Pull over on the side of the road between towns and walk 50m off the road and there's a good chance that you're the first person to stand there in a century, if not a millennium or ever.
Weird to see a mention of perth and Kalgoorlie out here in the wild.
Where I live all barricades get regular inspection, cleanup and repair/maintenance where needed.
