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Google Earth virtual flights: Another way to see the area A beginner's flight on West Egypt Road for Tree tunnels and rural scenery. Or for those afraid to get Lost in Space, a beginners flight over Columbia, with lessons from the past and ideas for the future. The flights let the imagination run wild looking for meaning in the forest patterns of Adair County. By Ed Waggener If the winter has you pining for the warm days of summer, you might want to take a virtual flight over, or drive through beautiful West Egypt Road, Columbia, KY, between Absher/Egypt on the Knifley Road and Jericho on Holmes Bend Road, on West Egypt Road on Google Maps. From the satellite map, one can see the road from Knifley RD/KY 551 to Holmes Bend Road, and pretty farms and forested areas. By changing to "Earth" for Google Earth, the road seems to disappear between Rice Road and Holmes Bend, but it doesn't really. Rather, the tree canopy creates one of Adair County's most beautiful tree tunnels. If you're over 12 years old, getting used to the controls to "fly" or "drive" on Google Earth will take a little time, but it seems well worth it to get a better perspective with this virtual Know Your County Better tour. Maintaining control of one's virtual vehicle takes care, but Billy Joe Fudge says he's "flown" from Wolf Creek Dam down the length of the Cumberland River, all the way to the Ohio. The views impact each traveller in different ways, but one frequent comment we've heard is how green Adair County is, with so much forested area. For those frequent virtual flyers, almost all of them comment on the shapes and figures, of animals, punctuation marks, human figures, described by the wooded areas, as seen from the satellite photos provided for Google by the USDA Farm Service Agency. Of course, if you're a bit of a fraidy cat, and don't want to get Lost in Space, stay closer to home by clicking on Map of Columbia, KY and just fly around town on Google Earth or look at the City from the Heavens. A lot of things will jump out at you, such as proximity of places which in childhood may have seemed remote, or, more obviously the lesson of, the folly of building the Boondoggle Expressway from KY 61 to KY 55, when the money could have been spent so much more wisely by completing what remains an urgent need, the Eastern Bypass, which would have cost scarcely more than Boondoggle, and would have carried much more traffic away from Downtown Streets. Of course, with the gubernatorial election at hand, it's a reminder that Senate President David WIlliams tried to get the money diverted from Boondoggle to the Eastern Bypass, and that Adair Countians might be able to get a promise of that road during the the 2011 gubernatorial campaigns from Senator Williams and/or Gov. Beshear and/or other candidates. On the other hand, a virtual visit to the Adair County School District seems to make the segment of the Western Bypass from Campbellsville RD to Burkesville ST seem of utmost value, a value diminished by the awkward sharp turns at both intersections, design flaws which never should have happened, and wouldn't, if the Kentucky Department of Highways had a Truck Driver with a CDL on staff to advise and supervise the engineers. -Ed Waggener This story was posted on 2011-01-08 07:51:20
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