America’s quietist routes? What even does that mean? The road is so smooth your vehicle tires don’t make a sound rolling on it? There’s never wind whistling through your closed windows? No one ever honks their horn at you? No braying cows or horses along the roadside?
Let’s see, what else makes a route quiet? Ah, no racing police cruisers, lights and alarms blasting away. Drones and crop sprayers dive-bombing the trailer. Oh, I know, thunderstorms. I remember one drive in Montana, surrounded by at least a dozen of them, near and far, all around us in that big sky. It was a little scary. There's always Death Valley-- a pretty quiet ride for other reasons.
Maybe by quiet the guy means lonely. That stretch west on I-40 from the Texas line to Moriarity gets my vote. Never drive it without you be certain your gas tank is topped off.
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