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SPRING 2017 ISSUE 01 / VOL. 02
The overlooks along U. S. Route 119 in Eastern Kentucky are a popular place to interrupt the ride and admire the view.
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I crossed the state line from Ohio on U. S. Route 23, which Kentucky calls the Country Music Highway. Signs and a museum honor a dozen musicians born along this route, from Hylo Brown, who was popular in the 1950s, to Miley Cyrus, born in the 1990s. But I was still as restless as a squirrel late in the season, so I abandoned the four-lane and skipped the roadside attractions in a last-chance quest to whittle away at my tires’ chicken strips on Kentucky’ s old two-lanes. I was here for the curves.
State Route 486 offers plenty of them, with new pavement. Then I followed State Route 32, a popular road I revisited later, and rolled south into Paintsville. I was back alongside U. S. Route 23, but instead of droning down its four lanes, I had enjoyed 80 miles of Kentucky’ s smaller roads. My base for the weekend was Jenny Wiley State Park, just past another sign pointing toward the Loretta Lynn homestead in Butcher Holler. More country music heritage.
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