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Linn Cove Viaduct, in the mountains of North Carolina, is perhaps the crowning glory of the Blue Ridge Parkway
PHOTOGRAPHS MATT MUNRO
JACK KEROUAC HAS MUCH TO ANSWER FOR. HIS 1957 novel On the Road not only invented the Beat Generation, it set the template for all subsequent US road trips: two lanes of blacktop highway stretching to the horizon, buzzing neon signage, tumbleweed blowing across empty desert tarmac, monstrous trucks with gleaming chrome wheels, Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty hopped up on bennies, their bloodshot eyes fixed on the sunset. Well, the route through the Blue Ridge Mountains is nothing like that.