William Least Heat-Moon: ‘Speed Corrupts Travel far More Than Bad Chinese Food’

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  11.24.09 | 2:46 PM ET

CNN talks to the author of the classic travel book “Blue Highways” as part of its American Road Trips package. The Blue Highways experience, he says, is still out there:

There are still miles and miles of two-lane roads to take a traveler into recesses of America, where delights and amazements await.

The problem with an interstate is not the interstate itself but the speed at which one can move on an interstate.

(via Jaunted)