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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

As we hillbillies know, low traffic count is one of the perks of  
living way beyond the suburbs. Yesterday, a Saturday morning  
beginning at 7:20, I drove up to Springfield, Missouri, which is  
about ninety miles and just under two hours northwest of Heartwood.  
It takes nearly forty minutes to cruise the twenty-five miles out to  
the first straight road. What was remarkable yesterday was not the  
time it took, but the fact that I drove for twenty-six miles before I  
saw another car. That might be a record for me here.

In Phoenix I could possibly go three blocks before I meet another  
car. In twenty-six miles I might easily see vehicles numbering in the  
thousands.

Seems to me this is better.