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| Truman Building parking lot, Jefferson City, Missouri |
"I just kept plying away like a termite on your house, .... My drive was more like mowing a 68,000-square-mile lawn."
Source: Former State Tourism Director Drives on All of Missouri's Back Roads, December 3, 2013, Missourian newspaper.
John Drake Robinson drove all of Missouri's state-maintained roads over the course of 10 years. This is my kind of traveler. He lives in Columbia, Missouri, not far from my hometown in Jefferson City.
Missouri has a damn lot of road miles. I once heard Missouri has more miles of road than most states. Don't know if this is true. Yup, here we go, from the article cited above: "Missouri ranks No. 7 in the country for the number of miles in its highway system."
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| Ware Street, Jefferson City, Missouri |
Remember the book on back roads, Blue Highways? The author, William Least Heat Moon, lives very close to Columbia, in a river town called Rocheport.
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