Ron Sorter

Socrates, according to Plato, said: “the unexamined life is not worth living.“ Blue Highways is a book about William Least Heat Moon’s meanderings as he wandered around America’s two-lane roads in 1978. He meets extraordinary people and, along the way, begins to see his life through a more-focused lens. After a voyage of 13,000 miles, he returns to where he started as a man with one hell of a story. T.S. Elliot said something like: “Do not cease in exploration, and at the end of all your exploring, you will arrive where you started and know the place for the first time.” Least Heat Moon returned there, and his book reveals to him, and describes to us, what the voyage to an examined life looks like.