On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing. But in those brevities just before dawn and a little after dusk – times neither day nor night – the old roads return to the sky some of its color. Then, in truth, they carry a mysterious cast of blue, and it’s that time when the pull of the blue highways is strongest …”
(Blue Highways)

On old highway maps, America’s Back Roads are Blue…

Here’s a link to a ‘Good Read’ Travel/Memoir [Blue Highways – A journey into America] – authored by William Least Heat-Moon – born of English-Irish Osage ancestry in Kansas City Missouri.

In a Los Angeles Times Review Quote “Heat-Moon walks through this book about our land and our people with a patient, eloquent, beautiful pace, his eyes taking in everything and it’s meaning. Then he puts our words and our vistas into language that lives on the page”…(Michael Parfit)…

In closing: I treasure having this little gem tucked away in my private collection! There’s so much to share with you from my ‘travels’…

Yours with love from a seasoned traveler,
Lorrie
Click below:

https://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/LeastHeatMoon.html