Blue Highways

And so they were, like, staking out the ranger, woman ranger's house and trying to figure out where he was.

One of the last books he was reading was, uh, Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon, which is about a guy who was having some family problems and went out on a road trip.

Um, on the blue highways were the least traveled roads on the maps back in the day, like the ones, not the interstates, but the blue highways.

Yeah.

And so people thought, "Oh, I wonder if he just took off to start a new life somewhere else." And then people started interviewing.

But getting off the, the freeways, I think there was a very popular movie called Doc Hollywood, and one of the lines in it was, uh, "Get off the freeway, Doc Hollywood, and stay here and practice medicine because, because we need you." There is another set of roadways.

There is a book by William Least Heat-Moon, a Native American, called Blue Highways.

It was a takeoff on a very famous previous book.

And it sort of exhibits a lot of the culture and, and people that you can meet by getting off the freeways and getting onto things, places like Route 66.