One of these days I’ll do a Blue Highways.

Blue Highways, by William Least Heat-Moon was published in 1982, and I read it soon afterwards.
In 1978 the author, having lost his job as a teacher, packed his life in a van and started a 13.000 mile round trip through the USA, following rural roads and stopping in small towns.

Subtitled A Journey into America, the book chronicles his travel and describes the people he met.
Just that, nothing very complicated.
It was one of the first travel books I read, back when I was in the strange limbo between high school and university. I read it back-to-back with Robert M. Pirsing’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Continue reading →