“On the first day of spring I boarded my small three-year-old Ford van, called Ghost Dancing, and with its dicey water pump lit out for some other, and warmer, territory that could be termed Any Damn Place Else.” Looking for a way out of the “frozen fields of Missouri,” he decided to undertake a road trip. “At age 38, over-degreed and undereducated.I was iced in by failed expectations and a cold logic suggesting that I should expect no interior spring thaw,” the first chapter reads.
In 1978, after a long, cold winter, Heat-Moon grew restless. Including the many drafts and rejections from publishers, and the accompanying mental, emotional and personal strain. In this book-published more than 30 years after his 13,000-mile cross-country road trip and the subsequent publishing of what was his first book-he reflects on the four years spent writing and revising. Heat-Moon’s new book, Writing Blue Highways: The Story of How a Book Happened, lets readers relive that journey, but from a new, contemplative perspective. By documenting his journey in his book Blue Highways, he allowed readers to share in his experience-so that we might live vicariously through his adventures. The Missouri native left his home and family and headed out for three months on the road. Who among us hasn’t dreamed of abandoning their current life and hitting the road, leaving everything behind, with just the highway for company? In the spring of 1978, that’s exactly what William Least Heat-Moon did.
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