Day 6: October 23, 2017 Un-Detour Comment via blog |
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The scene may look familiar. It's a picture of the intersection where I
started yesterday's twenty-seven mile detour, and it's taken from roughly
the same perspective. Part of my reasoning when I decided to stop where I
did yesterday was the thought of driving north to the other side of the
detour and minimizing the amount of US-35 missed. I minimized it a lot.
There is evidence that there was some road closure at one time but it's all open now. I was able to drive the entire skipped section northbound, then turn around, take this picture, and do what I didn't do yesterday. It is this recovery from a detour that gives this page its name. It should not be confused with the similar sounding, but probably more interesting, Undie Tour. |
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There was some nice looking two-lane along the way, although this was not a gorgeous top-down day. There was also some construction and clusters of orange barrels. |
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I left US-36 to drive into Richmond, Indiana. Main Street/National Road/US-40 is intact, but some of the cross streets have major work in process. |
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My purpose in entering Richmond was breakfast at
The Tin Lizzie
Cafe. Good food and great walls. Those walls can teach you a lot of
local history. They even hold a couple of disks from Richmond's Gennet
Records, "The Birthplace of Recorded Jazz". Coming from a Route
66 Conference, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I saw this light
switch panel in a restaurant on the National Road. In the restaurant's
defence, there is a Historic National Road sign in the front window.
I returned to US-35 and followed it into Eaton before turning off for home. I took no pictures since it's a section I'm familiar with and there was at least some light rain most of the time. I can now add US-35 to the list of US Numbered Highways I've driven entirely. I drive the bits between Richmond and Dayton fairly often. It was once part of the National Old Trails Road, though not part of the National Road. I don't drive the route beyond Dayton all that often but I have driven it multiple times. |
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