TENNESSEE

September 6, 2003

Comments

Virginia Postrel must drive [Or eat. -ed.] verrry slowly:

Tennessee is a very long state. If you eat breakfast in Knoxville, you won’t get to Memphis until dark.

It’s only 385 miles–377 of which are interstate!

mtpolitics

September 6, 2003 at 8:24 am

I wonder how she’d fare out here?
Teri Lester

September 6, 2003 at 10:24 am

If she did that when she was a kid (i.e. before there were interstates) this could be true.
McGehee

September 6, 2003 at 4:25 pm

Or she could be like my wife and eat breakfast (given her druthers) after McDonald’s has started serving lunch.
Chris Lawrence

September 6, 2003 at 5:03 pm

What Teri said; my grandfather recently told me about driving with my grandmother, my mom and her brother from Nashville to Memphis while I-40 was still under construction (must have been in the 1960s). They stayed the night in Jackson because of the length of the trip. (US 70 is a bit of a slog through Tennessee; lots of small towns along the way.)

Today (post-NMSL), you can drive from downtown Memphis to downtown Nashville in three hours flat. Knoxville would be 5 1/2 or so.

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