Blue highways book5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() The reason why Least Heat-Moon set out on this 13,000 mile journey was intensely personal. The real America lay beyond superhighways and metropolitan areas. In small towns, he is more likely to have a true American experience. He makes friends only when he wishes to have company. The author decides to stick to back roads and small towns as he wishes to be lonely and also wants to preserve the purity of experience. People become more open to experiences and people, who may not have interested you when pursuing that 9 to 5 job. Travelling, especially the kind where the destination is not the important thing but the journey is, helps people shed their inhibitions and emotional baggage. Humans have, since the time they appeared on earth, travelled looking for better places. The author’s aim was to connect with real towns were real people lived. The 13,000 mile journey that went around US, barring the state of California, kept consciously away from main highways. These were back roads that connected small towns. Blue Highways gets its name from the roads marked in blue in the old Rand McNally atlas. ![]()
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