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, which yielded many amusing Briliant Signs.
There is something very zen about keeping my “self” in storage.