BLUE HIGHWAYS

 Back in the day when people actually used maps to get around, blue was the color that designated the secondary roads while red were the primary routes.  In 1982, William Least-Heat Moon wrote a book about his travels around the country in his van on the blue highways.  The book “Blue Highways” became a best seller which I read at the time.

In our travels around the US and in other countries we’ve always be drawn to the blue highway and the small towns they pass through.  A slower pace, less traffic, you see more.  So we are now on another RV trip, across America and hopefully most of it will be done on the blue highway.  Of course sometimes the red highways will be necessary but we’ll try to keep them to a minimum.

We have a general idea of where we’re headed, but it is our practice to “change it up” when we see an opportunity to experience something different.  Right now our thinking is, head to Denver to pay a visit to my sister and a friend.  From there into Nebraska and Iowa, states we have visited many times before.  Then into southern Illinois, a state we have not paid much attention to.  Continuing on into Tennessee and then south towards New Orleans.  If we still have some of our two month allotted time left, a slow trip though Texas will bring us back to the West.

The first three days will be used getting to Denver and from there we will start exploring in earnest.  So follow along and I’ll try to keep you entertained.