Blue Highways by Least Heat Moon

[techie]

I spent most of yesterday afternoon and late evening reading this old but wonderful book. William Least Heat-Moon takes his wonderful prose on a slow trip across the back roads of America, and along the way we get to meet folks in small-town America. Heat-Moon's journey was precipitated by the double whammy of learning he'd lost both his job and his wife at just about the same time, and he figured, as he felt he'd also lost a sense of direction for his life, that perhaps travel, reflection, and writing might cure what ailed him. Some have said the book, now almost 30 years old, is dated - and of course it is. I think I purchased it in the late 70's. Techie was VERY young then :H But what makes it even more interesting nowadays is, reading it, you can kind of track the process of how America got from what it was then to what it is now. It's a bit scary :H