[AnonChick]

I found all those rotaries to be harrowing, and the golf cart paths immensely confusing whenever I had to deal with a tunnel. For instance - there's one tunnel, that exits to a sign for Morse. It shows that if you go left, you'll get to Sumter Landing. If you go right, you'll get to Sumter Landing. If you're new, and just a visitor, and not familiar with the maps, or tunnels, or golf carts, you'll probably just sit there and stare at the sign until some kind person comes along and tells you the sign is correct - that EITHER way will get you to Sumter Landing.

It's especially confusing, because it's the only sign that does that. All the other signs will say "Belvedere -----> " indicating that Belvedere Road is that way, but no indication as to what (if anything) is on Belvedere that might inspire me to turn.

And then the whole Morse bridge - oh jeez. We were coming from Spanish Square, on a golf cart, and it was already dark (we were enjoying dinner). We had to get over the bridge, and saw the rotary coming up. We never saw any indication that we were -not- following a path that leads to a seperate golf cart path. So we kept going in the direction of the bridge, and suddenly realized we were on the roundabout, NOT on a golf cart path, and the golf cart path was WAYYYYYYY over to the right, and we had no idea how to get onto it. So we just sucked it up, held our breath, said a little prayer, and kept going onto the bridge. We got to the sign that declares it the Lake Sumter water authority bridge or whatever it says, and saw that the grass seperating the now-parallel cart path had thinned out to just a curb, and we jumped it to get onto the path.

The rules regarding the rotaries only apply to people who actually know where they're trying to go, and how to get there. I drove on the rotary looking for an open house - stayed in the right lane where I came from, because I thought it'd be straight through. Turns out it was a left, and I should've been in the left lane. Woops?

Thing is, this is a HUGE community and there are hundreds of rentals, and seasonals. The vast majority of the civilized world does -not- live in a community with 2-lane rotaries at every 4-way intersection. The vast majority of the civilized world has never seen them, and will experience them for the very first time upon entering the Villages. Permanent residents need to accept this. Fortunately many of you are incredibly kind and understanding and happy to stop and help out a lost rider.