The Road Guide, or Ceļu Gids in Latvian, seems to be pretty nice idea to gather information for drivers in Riga and Latvia, as well as around Baltic States overall.

When I first stumbled upon that site, I noticed official Latvian State Roads web camera information which is live from Jurmala highway. Make sure you check it out, looks cool. If you could access those admin menus and move the cam or something, that thing would be priceless =)

The Road Guide is officially run by Latvian State Roads so they got the freshest info on road condition. I guess they own the automatic Road Weather Information systems - I do notice those booths along the highways with anemometers and stuff.

Plus, they’re the guys who are down with road works so they put online the latest scoop on road works, locations, speed limits in those places, what kind of work is done and when it’s about to be finished. This section needs to be visual though, integrated in Google Map cause I don’t wanna scroll all the way down with my route in my mind.

Speaking on Google Maps, there’s amazing stuff found on the Road Guide - Riga traffic web cams with cam location integrated on city map. These are not official State Roads cams like the Jurmala one, but still convenient if you wanna check out what’s happening in those usual traffic jam places.

The site also offers Google Maps shortest route calculation between Latvian cities but I guess I better use the original Google Maps screen, it’s larger and allows additional features.

Links to Baltic Roads site do good, as it turns out that page got official road weather data like temperature (both air and road), precipitation, winds all the way from Lithuania up to Finland and St. Petersburg area.

Those who cross the EU border from Latvia will find out about queues and situation on border through the Road Guide.

The site sure lacks English and Russian, perhaps German and Lithuanian/Estonian cause I figure there are some foreign drivers who’d love to be informed.

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Valsts svētki Latvijā, šķiet, pagāja mierīgi, daudzi apciemojuši radus, draugus un atgriezušies mājās.

Štatos tagad tuvojas viens riktīgs holiday - Thanksgiving week-end, kad arī pieņemts doties ciemos (pie tam parasti kaut kur tālu, nevis pie kaimiņa uz šņabja glāzi). Un tā visi ceļo no štata uz štatu, lai tikai nobaudītu, cik garšīgs ir māsīcas vīratēva tantes cepts tītars.

Nu jā, tās četras brīvdienas tak ir lietderīgi jāizmanto! Es tikai brīnos, ja tāda braukāšana sāktos pie mums, kas notiktu uz ceļiem / dzelzceļa stacijām / autoostām.. Lidostām? Diez kad (vai) līdz tam brīdim maz nodzīvosim.

Vārdu sakot, ASV skaitļi runā paši par sevi: 39 miljoni ceļotāju ir devušies ceļā - jau šodien! Wow. Es gribēju pateikt, dzīvojot Rīgā, nevaru pat iedomāties. Laikam tur valda reāls bardaks. Kā raksta USA Today gan, ir tīri normāli - arī lidostas tiek galā ar cilvēku pieplūdumu.

Atliek tikai novēlēt Happy Thanksgiving, kuram tas kaut ko izsaka.

I’m ghost.

And while I’m on it, atļaujiet pačukstēt jums vēl šo to par Misteru Curtisu. Kā ziņo uzticami avoti, Fifs ir saskatījies vecos labos padomju flikus, piemēram kā Бриллиантовая Рука. Un viņam tur ir nevis lūzums, lol, bet zelts un briļjanti. Nu jā, zelts nerullē - platīns un brjuļiki =)

Cerams, ka tas ģipsis tomēr ir sekas pēc Fiftija džentlmeniskas sarunas ar Kanye. Ko tad viņš vēl citu ir pelnījis, ja ne p!sienu pa žokli, apsteidzot G-Unit ģenerāli ar savu sūda Graduation?

Anyways, mani Īrijas nēģeri ietusēs svētdien, jo džeks ir atlidojis uz konci Dublinā. Kāds padalāties vēlāk ar iespaidiem?

One Love.