Status Updates From Blue Highways

Ohio's been snubbed!! Heat Moon chose Canada instead

A deaf person!!

📖: Stalking the Wild Asparagus

Looks like the Viking House Cafe is no longer open in Bagley, and I've never heard of Richard C Davids or his book

Here we are in Bagley!

~ The uncluttered stretches of the American West and the deserted miles of roads force a lone traveler to pay attention to them by leaving him isolated in them.

Now I want to visit the Palouse

The further Heat Moon travels, the more introspective he becomes, and the less he socializes. Bring the socializing back!

Now I want to read about Lewis and Clark

📖: Astoria by Washington Irving

A banana slug just made an appearance. I believe it was in a PMW session

The Pony Express only existed for 17 months?! I thought it was longer than that

I need to reread A Tale of Two Cities 📖

~ ...I, too, was rolling effortlessly along, turning the windshield into a movie screen in which I, the viewer, did the moving while the subject held still. That was the temptation of the American highway, of the American vacation (from the Latin vacare, "to be empty").

Colorado means reddish

~ One minute after meeting me, he'd admitted to ten thousand failures and given a tour of his lower tract. I wondered where we'd be in half an hour.

This book truly feels like a deeeeeeeeep breath of fresh air.

📖: Oliver Wiswall by Kenneth Roberts

The old Ninety Six Star Fort sounds like a cool place to visit!

~ To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.

~ Living in rural America without land is to be without strength.

The Outer Banks have an old London accent?

Ope, this older guy was right in his prediction that someone would come up with an electric cigarette

I thought I had read Leaves of Grass. I guess I was mistaken. 📖