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par " ae j JJ JUL XL I mmd TA TF HEEL r ISA st. II i i- i- '1 Thursday, July 13, 1978, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Volume 85, No. 7 I "iATAA " f h y V f t 1 rf v K Wiv v t : ft .? w -41 I- ' 'iX? &'. P mA l;s, 1 I -v If .'?'". ' C ' : ARD HO! An Interstate Adventure By Allen Jernigan Photography Editor After 700-miles of highway patrolmen swooping out of the westering sun like Stuka dive bombers, a sumptuous yet inexpensive meal of country-cooking at the Cracker Barrel restaurant east of Nashville, and a high-speed game of chicken with the nighttime truckers, we rolled into Memphis about midnight. A room in Memphis cost us $18.74, but after an hour of searching for a bed, we were glad to get it. The innkeeper assured us the price was a special low rate because the room had no TV. But our window offered a grand view of the dual adult drive-in theaters across the street. The interstate provided an appropriately racy soundtrack and 1 slept fitfully, eager for my first sight of that artery of the nation, the great Mississippi River. In May of this year, my father came to me with a grand proposition He had been nominated to attend a management school in Santa Fe for a week, and asked me in cold blood to go along as co-pilot and traveling companion. Visions of adventure danced in my head. I saw Indians circling a herd Pw... ..,as, . . 1 WKgliiliUnmniwiilJIi' :-:.v.; ,;jhfci.1- Tk : : . . jUMMKc:: . . -v.. . &-M,tai.-,s-.-'--: 1 ' , . : a
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