Yesterday was the second day of our Rte 66 trip, but the first full day on the road. We traveled from Kingston, Tn to Staunton, Il. We drove through Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, and then into Illinois.
The drive was very scenic since we routed around the interstate system and traveled on the byways of each state, except Indiana and Illinois since we had to make up some lost time. The drive was going very smooth until we reached Owensburg, Ky, then everything went to pot!
We were traveling on Kentucky HWY 231 into Owensburg, and we wanted to go through Owensburg to stop at a park and see a couple of oddities while we were there, but the signage for 231 were lackluster at best. To get into Owensburg you must pass over HWY60, which is an express way style road. The signage for HWY231 put us onto the express way that we were looking to avoid.
"No problem" I thought, we'll hop off the next exit and turn ourselves around, but the first exit put us onto another expressway that took us back to Hartford, KY (Home of 2000 smiling faces and a few soreheads). Now I believe that when this express way was designed the road engineers were taking a few shots of Kickin' Chicken, since this expressway had no exits for 24 miles. We had to go back to Hartford, we had driven through on HWY231, so we could turn around and drive another 24 miles back to HWY 60. This little "detour" put us an hour behind schedule and wasted 50 miles of drive time.
I can say that the silver lining of the detour is that it killed enough time for the storms that were rolling through the area to pass through, and made the interstate/express way drive a little less dramatic.
JStowe
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