This state route is not a part of the National Highway System, a network of roadways identified as being most important for the economy, mobility and defense of the nation.
Come the late 1990s, Turkey was a big emerging market, a shining example to developing nations, en route to European Union membership, at the crossroads of world energy hubs and eager to take on the world with a dynamic young population of 70 million.
Now, the only profitable carriers are low-fare operators like Southwest Airlines that have avoided building comprehensive nation-spanning route systems.
"State fairs hold a special place in our nation's history and heritage, so my family is honored to highlight one of them on one stop along the One Nation Tour route — America's historic Iowa State Fair!" Ms. Palin wrote.
THE decision by Turkey's highest court to ban the country's third-largest political party on the ground that its Islamic flavour flouts the secular constitution is yet another instance of Turkey's judges and generals failing to realise that tolerance rather than repression should be their nation's route to harmony and prosperity.
Meanwhile, the Scottish National Party has mooted a similar nation-hugging route, linking existing stretches of coastal footpath to form one great Gretna-to-Berwick loop.
The date line, created at an international convention in 1884, is an imaginary line drawn roughly north to south along the 180-degree meridian, zigging and zagging here and there to accommodate the needs and demands of the nations along its route.
Nor is bypassing nation states the route to better global governance.
The efforts to improve underwater technology are in hopes of countering China's rising influence and threats over various nations' sea lanes, routes vessels regularly use for transport.
But the dictator's grand ambitions had of course set his nation on a route to defeat and disaster and, in his quieter moments, in the luxurious surroundings of the villa, Mussolini must have gradually begun to realise just how badly he had over-reached himself.
European nations are traveling this route ahead of us, Galston notes.
