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Lombard Street, San Francisco

"The Crookedest Street in the World" is what they call it. Lombard street. The funny thing is that this street is a couple of miles long, but the "Crookedest" bit is just one block that features 8 hair pin turns designed to decrease the steepness of the decline it's on.

Americans are, admittedly, kinda funny that way. You build a street that is straight as an arrow for miles, put a couple of turns in and call it the "something something" of the WORLD. Of course. I wonder what world though. Probably the people that named it thus never set foot in Old Jerusalem, Yafo, Akko, Nazareth or, for that matter, any ol' European city with its roots in the dark ages. Hell, just drive through Fjord country in Norway, and... well... you get the picture.

Having said that, seeing the Japanese go nuts with their cameras on this stretch of road is more than vaguely amusing.

Posted by Chris at July 2, 2008 11:35 AM