
Road Trip
The Long Loop: Day One (Johnson City to Danville, Kentucy)
“We stopped for a rest break at the Cumberland Gap and found a reminder that history rarely settles cleanly. For twenty-seven years Kentucky and Tennessee argued over where one state ended and the other began. Near these mountains, Meriwether Lewis raised a sextant to the sky and discovered the line had been misplaced by nearly ten miles. In Appalachia, even the borders carried uncertainty.”
