TENNESSEE
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James Joyner | Saturday, September 6, 2003 |
Virginia Postrel must drive [Or eat. -ed.] verrry slowly:
Tennessee is a very long state. If you eat breakfast in Knoxville, you won’t get to Memphis until dark.
It’s only 385 miles–377 of which are interstate!
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I wonder how she'd fare out here?
If she did that when she was a kid (i.e. before there were interstates) this could be true.
Or she could be like my wife and eat breakfast (given her druthers) after McDonald's has started serving lunch.
What Teri said; my grandfather recently told me about driving with my grandmother, my mom and her brother from Nashville to Memphis while I-40 was still under construction (must have been in the 1960s). They stayed the night in Jackson because of the length of the trip. (US 70 is a bit of a slog through Tennessee; lots of small towns along the way.)
Today (post-NMSL), you can drive from downtown Memphis to downtown Nashville in three hours flat. Knoxville would be 5 1/2 or so.
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