The Internet was designed to make it easy to move information to route around points of failure.

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But most major road trip-planning tools, such as AAA, Google Maps and Mapquest, bypass these inspiring sights, assuming that most travellers only want the fastest route between points A and B.

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If the quickest route between two points is a straight line, what's one who is traveling from Boston to Paris and needs to get there soonest to do?

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