Travel Photo Of The Week - Not Exact (But Close Enough) Mileage Post, Alaska

February 18th, 2007 by Pia Taylor

Sign Post in Alaska - click to visit original image

Every now and then during your travels you’re likely to bump into signposts that make you stop and chuckle (and haul out your camera). Some will make you howl with laughter.

Some are intentionally funny, many are complete accidents (often via gross mistranslation) and with quite a few, you’ll never ever know.

It’s such a phenomenon that there’s an entire website dedicated to signs and the photographing of them.

Jennifer McFarlane, a member of our Flickr Travel Photo Pool, did a bit of her own signspotting by taking a photo of this chuckleworthy signpost in Alaska (see more of her photos here).

If you have cool or funny travel photos from your adventures, and would like to share them with us (and other backpackers), why not join the Backpackers Travel Photo Pool on Flickr. Every week we’ll be highlighting one of our favourites, just like this one.

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