While we were still sailing we read Blue Highway, by Least Heat Moon. My wife never liked the idea of RVing, but after 9/11, our plans for blue water sailing stalled. The more she thought about the small roads in the country and after seeing the small towns we passed through going to my hometown in OK, she changed her mind. So when we got our little fiberglass travel trailer we largely stuck to the small roads.
My favorite activity is listening to small town radio stations. She got a laugh as we passed through a small NM town and heard a taxidermy radio ad as we passed by a guy dressing a deer hanging from his kids swing set.
We still try to do that on the outbound leg, but once we are headed home, Nancy is like a horse heading to the barn and we end up on the Interstates.
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