ImTheCaptain
I disagree with you
ya'll aren't even making your own ricotta and butchering the cow you raised or grinding your wheat?
Small lanes and curves on curves. If you like driving or have a sports car or something I could see it being enjoyable. I don't qualify for either of those statements. I also have pretty bad generalized anxiety and spent too much time watching bad accident videos on like cracked.com in my adolescent years, so driving next to big rigs in those conditions just makes me too nervous to enjoy the views.
it's a bit annoying because you aren't covering much ground as the crow flies, but it's really pretty
as far as Midwest to East Coast drives go, I dig going through West Virginia the most and western Pennsylvania was a surprisingly interesting drive
oh you're just talking about the drive between Asheville and the Tennessee border?
For my money, Big Sur offers the best stress to view ratio (when bridges aren't washed out)
there's an event to celebrate a local author who passed away a few years ago and there is a book signing by the author's daughter
weird to me -- can't think of any book/author I'd want signed by their son or daughter
Yeah the distance thing also is annoying for I-40. You go from absolutely booking it from Winston -> Asheville (slows down a bit around Black Mountain) to what feels like a crawl to get into Tennessee.
West Virginia would be a lot better without all the tolls (my experience is driving on I-77 from Winston to Ohio 6 or 7x)
there's an event to celebrate a local author who passed away a few years ago and there is a book signing by the author's daughter
weird to me -- can't think of any book/author I'd want signed by their son or daughter
the worst stretches i know of are the i76 corridor from Harrisburg to Philly and i95 from Portland to Bangor and beyond. just 4 lanes through straight tunnels of trees for hours on end
give me that over the midwestern agriculture stretches