Southern Backroads of the US
Read "Blue Highways" by William Least-Heat Moon.
It's a lot more than a travelogue of a fast - disappearing part of America. The blue highways are the ones on the road atlas which are NOT superhighways - so this is a journey through the happily marginalised small communities of the Southern states. Check it out.
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