If you have the time...

The Virtues of Avoiding Interstates
Sure, the interstates can save you a bunch of time when you are traveling somewhere, but you miss quite a bit doing so. There's a rather big country that exists out there beyond the reach of the 6-lane blacktops.
Well, the story says that that kind of travel is coming. I suppose people are coming around to the idea that how you get there can be just as fun as where you are going. This is what I get for reading On the Road and Travels with Charlie when I was young and impressionable.