Anytime I have the opportunity to drive west I take the southern route through Alabama Mississippi, Tennessee and then Arkansas. My motives are twofold, First it seems faster and less weather threatened then the 40 route, and Two I get to pass through the town of Brilliant Alabama. For the last several years whenever I am making tracks I will detour enough to snap pictures of all the signs indicating how far it is to Brilliant, this time at the urging of my wife, we ventured into Brilliant Proper,