As a toddler, Laantje Zonder End already captured the imagination of Vrouwtje Jas. The Jas family lived nearby and on their Sunday walks they always walked a bit of the Laantje. She often asked a question about the Laantje: "Why does this avenue have no end?" "All streets end somewhere, don't they?" "What happens if we walk all the way?" "Are we going to keep going to see where we end up?" mother, fed up with questions, had a standard answer: "no one really knows, because no one has gotten to the end."
Her father, who loved to stimulate his children's imagination, told a different story every week. One time he told about a large sea that you reach once you have climbed over the hills of the Utrechtse Heuvelrug. The following week you fell into a big hole if you dared to walk out of Laantje Zonder End. A few weeks later he told me that you could walk all the way around the world and do you know where you would end up? "Just turn around, because eventually you will just walk there again, at the end of this street. But then your walk will have lasted years and you will arrive looking like an old lady." Little Jack's imagination struck. on the run. In the evening in bed she mused that she walked down the Laantje like Alice in Wonderland and had all kinds of adventures along the way. She wrote down those adventures, because well, you never know. Writer's blood goes where it can't go and if she doesn't come back, no one will ever know where that Lane Without End leads. Is this the source of her wanderer's blood? Her fantasy about The Lane Without End? Who knows? Once Mrs. Jas became an adult, she started to travel. Initially through the Netherlands, later through Europe. Then through Asia and Africa. The world became her Lane Without an End. Last summer she was at home in Zeist. Then she cycled past Het Laantje Zonder End. To her surprise, there was a traffic sign: 'dead end'. Her imagination ran wild again. Especially when she saw that “Het Afscheidshuys 't Zeisterbosch” is located at number 5. What an irony: the Laantje Zonder End is a dead end street with senior housing and a funeral home! Mrs. Jas wondered if there were more avenues without an end, so she went to investigate. She found interesting information on the website About Street Names in particular: there are more streets without an end, namely the Straatje-zonder-einde in Mechelen, the Straat Zonder End in Ostend and the Laan Eindeloos in Heiloo. It's unbelievable but all these streets are dead ends! Only our Lane Without End has the appearance of endlessness. At least in one direction, the Soesterberg side. Although, who knows: maybe the Laantje at Het Afscheidhuys is endless after all...