I have written before about motorcycle riding in West Virginia and why it is one of my favorite states to ride. I have to steal some of my own words and ideas from the past because they are still relevant.
Straight roads are more efficient and as a society we lower the tops of peaks, fill in valleys, build bridges and even drill through mountains to get straight roads. We wage a violent assault to impose our will over nature and the results are nice, straight, efficient, safer roads and highways.
In most of WV though, nature is too big and too wild to tame. Nature wins. WV doesn’t have a lot of straight roads. The asphalt ribbons have to conform to the mountains that climb, plunge and twist.
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