KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — For the first time since the pandemic got serious seven months ago, I left Missouri this past weekend, returning to the last state I visited on work duties way back in March.
By my count this was my seventh trip to Knoxville to cover a Mizzou-Tennessee game but the first by car. The 600-mile drive is longer than I’d normally make, but if I can avoid air travel this fall, I’ll gladly gas up a rental car and hit the road.
With a mix of podcasts in the queue and a backlog of Howard Stern interviews — the latest chat with Chris Rock is fascinating — I pulled out of Columbia at 8 a.