![]() He lived out of his monastically customized Ford van, ate at a lot of local cafes and kept a journal. Relegating a broken marriage and a lost job to the rear-view mirror, he spent three months exploring the continental United States by way of its back roads and the people he encountered upon them. In 1978, he put a general lust for wandering to emotional, existential and then literary use. William Least Heat-Moon is just such a traveler. And that can come in handy when the road, or the places along it, are denied him by pandemic or the cussed realities of age. ![]() (Ailor Fine Art Photography)Ī man who knows the road well enough can learn to travel in place. ![]() William Least Heat-Moon has more than 3,000 books in the American exploration portion of his home library. ![]()
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