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Route Map

Bee is headed back to CU for her 2nd year. She's taking a car, and Jenny didn't want her to drive alone, so Dave jumped at the change for a another roadtrip with his daughter.

Here's the expected route:

Instead of taking Interstates across NY to Chicago, then to Denver, we're taking a more scenic route, down thru the Appalachians then across the "original" West (Tennessee, Kentucky) then thru the "New West" (Missouri, Kansas, Colorado).

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