The Road Less Travelled

This phrase kept going through my mind when we were on vacation. We drove quite  few roads that were definitely not the more popular ones! But we enjoy seeing the out back side of Ghana! So I finally looked it up. I knew there was an entire poem and I found it interesting. It is actually about the road not taken but I still love the thought of the path we choose today takes us on a different journey then we might have gone.

The Road Not Taken 

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

I think the part of the novelty of these roads was that we had no clue where they would end. The GPS might say they go through but that isn't very dependable! There is something thrilling about driving down a dirt road and not knowing if it will end when you come around a bend!

(And in case you are wondering, only one of these ended!)