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Okay, the best riding was the TX Hill Country, Northwest AR, and Southwest VA. Also good are Western PA and Southern OH. Ninjas run wild and free here.
The Civil War battlefields: New Madrid, MO--Island No. 10 (which no longer exists since the Mississippi has changed course, but the site of an important Union victory); Henning, TN--Ft. Pillow where 264 US Colored Troops were massacred by enraged Confederates; Savannah, TN--Shiloh NHS; Vicksburg, MS--Vicksburg NHS and the USS Cairo, the only extant Civil War gunboat; Columbus, GA--Civil War Naval Museum; Appomattox Courthouse, VA--Appomattox NHS, where the war comes to its end; Manassas, VA--Manassas NHS; and Leesburg, VA--Ball's Bluff NHS where Lincoln's friend, Sen. Edwin Baker, was killed.
Civil Rights sites: Selma, AL--Selma NHS and the Baker AME Church where the marchers started and rallied; Montgomery, AL--International Civil Rights Center and the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church where King was minister 1954-60 and where the Montgomery Bus Boycott began; Tuskegee, AL--Tuskegee Airmen NHS.
Historic sites: Johnson City, TX--LBJ's Boyhood Home, the Johnson Ranch and Texas White House, and Padernales Falls State Park; the Natchez Trace (runs from Nashville, TN to Natchez, MS, but you don't want to ride all of it); Warm Springs, GA--FDR Little White House.
Left for another day due to weather: Chattanooga and Chickamauga NHS; Blue Ridge Pky, the Tail of the Dragon, and Skyline Drive; Carl Sandburg NHS; Flannery O'Connor library in Milledgeville, GA.
The rest of the trip was visiting friends and places of nostalgia from my
childhood.
There are about as many trucks as cars on America's interstates so it's time for trucks to have their own.
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