My Iowa Commute

[HungLikeJesus]

UT -- I once found a website that mapped dirt road routes across the country. I've been considering getting on my TransAlp and taking a dirt-road trip.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by HLJ

UT -- I once found a website that mapped dirt road routes across the country. I've been considering getting on my TransAlp and taking a dirt-road trip.

You better have a shitload of time.

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

You better have a shitload of time.

That's why I haven't done it.

[lizzymahoney]

Sundae Girl, you might want to get a copy of William Least Heat-Moon's

Blue-Highways-Journey-into-America.

This is one of my favorite books and I usually have a few thrifted copies around for people who haven't read it yet.

Blue Highways are the old US routes before the interstates went in. They still criss cross the country but are forgotten America in many ways. Route 66 is a blue highway.

[bluecuracao]

OK, I'm gonna beat our regular song-quoters to the punch:

Oh you know we're gonna ride
On a blue highway
Walk with the legs you're blind
On a blue highway
Wave hellow to pride
on my highway
Yes I almost died
On a blue highway

[xoxoxoBruce]

SG, traveling across America is the same as London to Moscow....twice. That's without the side trips and detours that are damn near mandatory. There are long stretches of it that are repetitious(boring) and should be traversed quickly for time and energy conservation. There are other sections that should be seen at a snails pace.

[lizzymahoney]

Only with a little more sauerkraut.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by lizzymahoney

Sundae Girl, you might want to get a copy of William Least Heat-Moon's

Blue-Highways-Journey-into-America.

This is one of my favorite books and I usually have a few thrifted copies around for people who haven't read it yet.

Blue Highways are the old US routes before the interstates went in. They still criss cross the country but are forgotten America in many ways. Route 66 is a blue highway.

PM me if you have one knocking about and you're willing to take a chance on a virtual unknown

Bruce - I know it wouldn't be non-stop pleasure, but it's a dream and if I had the money then I know I could schedule it so I could enjoy it.

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

PM me if you have one knocking about and you're willing to take a chance on a virtual unknown

Bruce - I know it wouldn't be non-stop pleasure, but it's a dream and if I had the money then I know I could schedule it so I could enjoy it.

SG -- you have a lot of imaginary American Cellar friends. I think that you should plan a trip to visit some of them (I mean us, if I may make that assumption), which would save you a lot of money and provide you with local guides through out the country.

[Elspode]

Originally Posted by lizzymahoney

Sundae Girl, you might want to get a copy of William Least Heat-Moon's

Blue-Highways-Journey-into-America.

I concur. This is a riveting, excellent, next best thing to being there read, and also one of my favorite tomes. When this book was at the height of its popularity in the 80's, I heard the author on the Larry King Show when it was still on radio. It was a nationally syndicated call in show back then, so I called in, and got on. My question of Least Heat Moon was simply, "Where did you get all the information for the stories you tell about the places you stopped? All the little historical asides, people's names and such?" His answer?

"You know all those roadside markers you usually drive past? I stopped at *all* of them."

Brilliant.