[HummerJim]

I got in touch with the earth on Earth Day with a good country road of gravel/mud near Louisiana, MO. It starts out as ashphalt as you leave the bluffs over the Mississippi by hwy 79. Where else can you drive 22 miles, blast through a creek (there was only 6 inches of water over the road through the creek - MO rural route W) pass a few homes and farms and not see another car or vehicle the enitre way except for the first mile through Louisiana, MO. I was amazed to see several bald eagles in the rural area between Louisiana and Clarkesville, perhaps 20 of them.