US 127

In these days of fiber optics and wireless networks and ever widening super highways with vehicles cruising along at 80mph, it is somehow reassuring that roads like this one still exist.

- two lanes between the fields of corn and soybeans
- farm houses close to the narrow gravel shoulder
- dark drooping spruce groves not far from the speed limit signs
- apple trees even nearer
- four-line telephone poles running along the southbound side
- golden rolls of hay, new-mown in the summer sun
- weedy creeks with unmowed banks
- old tractors for sale by the side of the road
- red barns with green shingle roofs
- slow-moving combines taking up the lane
- clusters of oaks dotting the landscape
- new-built houses on stone foundations build many years ago
- old silos without their tops

This is US 127 southbound out of Michigan. It's not so fast. It's not so wide, but I say it's better than an interstate.

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Southbound from Michigan to Texas, summer 2003

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