I really like #1! As far as the sign, take it or leave it. It doesn't bother me, but I could see how some people might not like it. My ONLY critique, and its a tiny one, is the dark cloud in the upper right corner. I like how my eye goes down the road, but then right at the end, when I wish my eye would swim off to the distance, *shunk*, it zips right to that cloud...
On #2, AWSOME! Again, only one tiny critique, and this is probably personal preference, but I used my super calibrated fingers, and looked at a crop romoving the dark horizontal line at the bottom, and preferred it with that slightly tighter crop.
Nice shots overall!