-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 04-09-19  06:10 <=-

 > JM> "Never heard of it".  After a while I was beginning to think I was
 > JM> in the Twilight Zone and would spend the rest of my life driving
 > JM> around aimlessly looking for that phantom highway.   
 > duh-dih-duh-dah-duh-dih-duh-dah     Probably the locals only knew it
 > by the street name, not the route number....

 JM> Possible.

And often, within city/town limits, the route is on various streets as
it works through the area... 

 >  JM> Needless to say I did eventually find it.
 > Obviously, you needed to have had a good map with you....   That was
 > probably already too late to get nice maps from gas stations....
 
 JM> I had a map, but found I was just a couple of blocks from where I
 JM> wanted to be.  And yes there were still maps at gas stations but none
 JM> had the information I needed.

Nothing with the local detail...?  Or anyone that could show you, You
Are Here, on a map....

 JM> I recall one time this out-of-towner asked me where such-and-such
 JM> was. I gave him directions and we went our separate ways.  A few
 JM> minutes later I realised, to my horror, I had given him the wrong
 JM> direction, thinking the place he wanted was another one.

Maybe he just lucked into the right place... or someone else was able to
set him straight... 

 JM> For all I know he may still be driving around trying to find it 35
 JM> years later.    

I'm sure that by now, he would have given up on it, and be off somewhere
else by now...  

ttyl       neb

... I guess it takes more than birthdays to get maturity!

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