William heat moon blue highways6/29/2023 No matter what the background or biography, they all have a folksy wisdom-y way of getting their stories across. Each and every person he finds to chat with "sounds" exactly the same. William Least Heat-Moon supposedly speaks with many of the people that inhabit these small towns, and yet he might as well have just spoken with one of them. He starts the journey angry and bitter and those emotions never change. To find himself? To look for "America?" To get a better perspective on his lot in life? I don't know, and he never quite says. He decides to drive all around the country in his van (named Ghost Dancer), just taking the back roads, which used to be labeled blue on maps. The author takes his trek around the forgotten parts of America after the failure of his marriage and the loss of his teaching job. Since then, I've read quite a few recollections of random journeys.and I can safely say that Blue Highways is the worst of them. Back in High School, I would read Michael Crichton's Travels, some parts many times over, just imagining what it would be like to be able to visit the places he wrote about. I've been to many places in America and I throughly enjoy exploring everywhere I haven't yet been. I love to travel and to take the roads less traveled. I am predisposed to enjoy this kind of book.
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