Saturday, March 14, 2015

Missing the Landmark

Everyone has local vacation destinations they look forward to every year. The familiar drive is peppered with landmarks that serve to raise the excitement level. The twenty foot tall cow, the twelve foot high rocking chair, the ice cream store with a name like Molly's or Steve's - all of these serve to announce the special vacation spot is that much closer.

For me, the well weathered pilot's boat perched on a raised mound of earth as advertisement for a marine supply store was what told me the drive from Pennsylvania to Rehoboth Beach was nearly at an end.

Even though I now live in the local area, every sighting of that boat was a reminder of family and suitcases packed into a car.

The day I approached that well known bend in the road to discover the tilting pilot's boat had been replaced by a high-tech LED sign was a sad one.  While the sign no doubt is an advertising enhancement it is just one of many such signs that continue to pop up. A landmark it is not.