Unexpected traffic

Twice a day I tune into Galgalatz: on my way into and out of work.

And as Wikipedia (correctly) states, the radio station, “broadcasts primarily nonstop popular music and traffic reports.”

Because of this, I get my fair share of traffic reports sprinkled around music and the top of the hour news summary. Traffic in Tel Aviv is bad, traffic in Jerusalem is bad, traffic in Haifa is bad, and the list goes on and on.

And while I speed along listening and imagining people sitting in downtown Tel Aviv traffic, I toy with the idea of calling in and reporting that the roads in the Golan are, as one would guess, traffic-free.

This morning as I was pulling out of the moshav, however, and two soldiers unexpectedly called me to a halt – and not a just move with caution, a full stop. A full stop for a few minutes because a pack of four or five self-propelled Howitzer-like artillery pieces were chugging along the Golan terrain and needed to cross the road and head back into the training field.

So I guess we in the Golan have our fair share of traffic, too.