I stuck to the backroads on my ride from Greenville to Goldsboro, North Carolina, but my faith in my DeLorme road atlas was substantially shaken. I had planned a simple route to my destination that entailed turning off of a state route onto the smaller "Pate Road," making a left onto "Turner Hill Road," and then finally turning at the intersection with "Hood Swamp Road." The only problem was that the roads weren't there. Or rather, they were there, but the names of the roads had changed since my atlas was printed. I rode along, repeating to myself the name of the next road I needed to turn at, but I never saw it. Finally, I stopped in the little hamlet of Jason, and consulted my map. Jason was shown on my map as being at
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