What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Living out of the back of his van he visited small towns such as Nameless Tennessee; Hachita New Mexico; and Bagley Minnesota to find places in America untouched by fast food chains and interstate highways. The Atlantic November 1987. PrairyErth is a deep map account of the history and people of Chase County Kansas.

travel writing. He is the author of a bestselling trilogy of topographical U. William Least Heat-Moon the byname of William Lewis Trogdon (born August 27 1939) is an American travel writer of English Irish and Osage ancestry.