Caution Funny Signs Ahead

Megan Edwards and Mark Sedenquist have long enjoyed travel. However, they have a particular enthusiasm for road tripping North America.

It is a passion that helped them out of a tight spot: When the couple’s home burned in a 1993 California wild fire, they piled into a RV and started off across America.

Yet once they hit the road, they started noticing funny signs. Some were sandwich boards on downtown sidewalks with strange wording. Others pointed the way to less-than-appealing local attractions.

Edwards and Sedenquist were so delighted by these signs that they soon began capturing them on film.

In 1996, they posted their collection online at their web site, RoadTrip America, and invited the world to begin submitting pictures of their own funny signs.

Just last month, in November 2008, they released a book called Caution: Funny Signs Ahead.

It features the best of this growing collection with photos from 92 different photographers.

I sat down with the book and an afternoon cup of coffee and it wasn’t long before I was giggling.

And it also wasn’t long before I sought out Megan and Mark to ask them a few questions about their funny sign obsession and their new book.

Tomorrow I'll post our Q & A conversation.