Eric is a GPS guru and he found a great ride through southwest Indiana, which turned out to be as twisty as any road in East Tennessee. Here’s a topographic map of the area so you can see it’s not cornfields and telephone poles, the way I think of Indiana.

“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.”

  In Search of Real America 5-15-26 I’m turning seventy in July. Time to celebrate! At fifty in 2006, I threw a party down on