I 495

Interstate 495 is the highway we use to dodge around Boston on the trip to Maine. Massachusetts drivers are dangerous enough without encountering them in confined quarters like anywhere near Boston - hence the utility of 495 (despite the fact that we're still exposed to crazy Massachusetts drivers).

But, as with all of Massachusetts, I 495 lives by its own set of rules. Oh, it has those signs that advertise the various restaurants and gas stations at each exit, but beware: there is NO SUCH THING as easy off-easy on. 

Once you leave that highway, you're immediately immersed in some incomprehensible warren of narrow roads, circles and town squares that were designed during the Revolution. 

If you are lucky, you actually stumble across the fast food joint advertised back on the highway. The real trick turns out to be figuring out how to reverse all those twists and turns and get BACK to the highway. 

That's driving in Massachusetts - damned if you stay on the highway, damned if you don't.