Bad postcard of the week:

No traffic on the way to the Cumberland Gap
From: The Grand Rapids Press

I don’t think we have to worry about toll booth postcards from this stretch of road.

Last week’s bad postcard focused on the very busy New Jersey Turnpike, packed each day with Bon Jovi fans rushing through the booths at the exit the nation’s sixth-busiest toll road.

But this week we’re headed to not-quite-as-crowded Tennessee thoroughfare.

The back reads: “U.S. Highways 25E and 58 Intersection near Cumberland Gap, Tennessee.”

This week’s mystery focuses on the trucker ambling up the road, slightly off in the distance. He has a momentous decision. Will he head in the direction of Bristol and Norton? Or, perhaps, he’ll drive toward Asheville and Morristown. Will he pass a McDonald’s or Burger King in either direction?

We just don’t know.

Speaking of mysteries, I tried to figure out what would drive a postcard photographer to snap this shot. If the subject was the sign, well, he could have zoomed in a little closer. We’re assuming the truck was moving, so the shooter might have waited a moment and had a better view of that, too.

And out of all the intersections of in the vicinity of the Cumberland Gap, why make this one a postcard?