here are a lot of travel writers I enjoy, but my favorite
travel book is Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon. I'm a
backroads traveler and this is the ultimate backroads traveling
book. I read it one blistering hot summer in Wisconsin when I
couldn't afford to take a real trip during my vacation. I
covered all my clocks, took the book and an atlas to the swing
on my front porch, and traveled the country's back roads.