Skip to main content

Search This Blog

MEANDERING the BLUE HIGHWAYS

Posts

Latest Posts

November 02, 2026

Alaska-Canada Trek 2026-2. Bellingham, Washington to Cayoosh Creek, British Columbia

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

October 30, 2026

Canada-Alaska Trek 2026-1: Home, a Tahoe Wedding, Family, Trip Prep

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

May 2026-9. The End: South through California

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

May 2026-8. The Beginning of the End: Utah, Idaho, & Oregon

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

May 2026-7. Miles & Miles of Dirt Roads, Part 2: Burr Trail Rd & Switchbacks, Notom-Bullfrog Rd, Torrey

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

May 2026-6. Miles & Miles of Dirt Road, Part 1: Hell's Backbone & Escalante

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

May 2026-5. Colorado: Silverton, Million Dollar Highway, Ouray. Utah: Scenic Drive to Green River, J. W. Powell

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

May 2026-4. Colorado: Durango-Silverton Narrow Guage Railroad

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

May 2026-3. Four Corners Favorites: Olijato-Monument Valley, Mexican Hat, Goosenecks State Park, Moki Dugway, Valley of the Gods, Ship Rock, Aztec Ruins National Monument

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

May 2026-2. We Hit the Road...Finally!

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

May 2026-1. We Hit the Road...Maybe

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Powered by Blogger

© 2007-2026 Marilyn R. Harper & Douglas H. Snider

Navigator: Marilyn

Visit profile
Pilot: Doug

Visit profile

Blue Highways

What is the blue road anyways but an opportunity to poke into the unknown and a hoping the unknown will poke back? William Least Heat-Moon, BLUE HIGHWAYS: A JOURNEY INTO AMERICA (1999)

California

Aguirre Springs Alabama Hills Amboy Crater Anza-Borrego Desert State Park Bodega Bay Bodie Bridgeport California California Central Coast Central Valley

Coachella Death Valley National Park High Sierra Trail Hume Lake Joshua Tree National Park Kings Canyon National Park Lake Kaweah Lava Beds National Monument Lost Coast Pacific Coast Painted Canyon Salton Sea San Joaquin Valley Santa Cruz Sequoia National Park Sierra Nevadas Slab City CA Trinidad White Sands Yosemite

Show more Show less

Follow Us!

Get new posts in your inbox as soon as we publish! Yay!

New Mexico

Aguirre Springs Aldo Leopold Arches National Park Bisti Carrizozo Chaco Canyon El Malpais Georgia O'Keeffe Los Alamos Monument Valley

New Mexico Rio Grande Gorge Salida Salinas Pueblo Missions Santa Fe Ship Rock Southwest Taos Valley of Fires NM Very Large Array NM White Sands

Show more Show less

Alaska

AlCan Alaska Alaska Marine Hwy Anchorage Chena Hot Springs Chicken Chitina Dalton Hwy Denali Hwy Denali National Park

Dyea Fairbanks Haines Hyder AK Kenai Peninsula Mat-Su Valley Matanuska Glacier McCarthy-Kennicott Nenana North Pole Seward Skagway Talkeetna Teklanika Campground Top of the World Hwy Turnagain Arm Valdez

Show more Show less

May all your trails be crooked...

May all your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you. —Edward Abbey

Utah

Arches National Park Boulder UT Bryce Canyon National Park Burr Trail Rd Capitol Reef National Park Cedar Breaks National Monument Factory Butte Glen Canyon Dam Goblin Valley Goosenecks State Park

Grand Staircase-Escalante Kanab UT Moab Moki Dugway Mountain Meadows Muley Point Natural Bridges National Monument Paria Southwest Utah Zion National Park

Show more Show less

Translate

Colorado

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park Central City Clive Cussler Car Museum Colorado Leadville Mesa Verde National Park Million Dollar Hwy Ouray Red Rocks Canyon CO Salida

San Luis Valley Southwest

Show more Show less

Pacific NW (WA, OR)

2014 Columbia River Glacier National Park Montana North Cascades Hwy Oregon Pacific Coast Pacific Northwest Washington

Canada

2017 2019 2024 AlCan Alaska Marine Hwy Alberta Arctic Circle British Columbia Canada Carcross

Carmacks Cassiar Hwy Columbia Icefields Dalton Hwy Dawson City Haines Junction Jasper National Park Kaslo Kootenay Bay Lake Louise Montreal New Brunswick Nova Scotia Ontario Quebec Revelstoke Robert Service Saskatchewan Stewart BC Tombstone Mt Park Top of the World Hwy Vancouver Island Whitehorse Yoho National Park Yukon Yukon Southern Lakes Dist

Show more Show less

My methods of navigation...

My methods of navigation have their advantage. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. Douglas Adams, THE LONG DARK TEA-TIME OF THE SOUL, CH 13 (1988)

Travels with a Donkey

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson, TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY IN THE CEVENNES (1879)

Nevada

Area 51 Great Basin National Park Highway 50 Nevada Red Rock Canyon NV Valley of Fire NV

Arizona

Arizona Dragon Bravo Fire Glen Canyon Dam Grand Canyon National Park Lees Ferry Marble Canyon Montezuma's Castle AZ Monument Valley North Rim Grand Canyon Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

Page AZ Quartzite AZ Southwest Vermillion Cliffs

Show more Show less

Mountain (MT, WY, SD, ND)

2025 Devils Tower National Monument Glacier National Park Moab Montana Mountain States North Dakota South Dakota Wyoming

Eastern US (DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, VA, WV, DC, NH, RI, CT, MA,ME)

2014 2024 Connecticut Eastern US Maine Massachusetts New England New Hampshire New York Niagara Falls

Pennsylvania Pittsburgh PA Virginia Washington DC

Show more Show less

MidWest (OH, MI, IN, IL, WI, MN IA, MO, KS, NE)

Kansas Louisiana Michigan MidWest Minnesota Missouri Nebraska Ohio Wisconsin

Hooptedoodle

One night Mack lay back on his bed in the Palace Flop house and he said, “I ain’t never been satisfied with that book CANNERY ROW.... Sometimes I want a book to break loose with a bunch of hooptedoodle.... Spin up some pretty words maybe.... But...I don’t want hooptedoodle to get mixed up in the story... [H]e ought to put it right at first. Then I can skip it if I want to, or maybe go back to it after I know how the story come out." John Steinbeck, SWEET THURSDAY (1954)

Latin America

2012 Emberá Drua Latin America Panama Panama Canal Peru

Southeastern US (AL, FL, GA, NC, SC, TN, KY, MS, LA, AR, TX)

2014 2024 Blue Ridge Pky Eastern US Florida Kentucky Land between the Lakes NRA Louisiana Mississippi Natchez Trace

North Carolina Outer Banks Pensacola South Tennessee Virginia Washington DC

Show more Show less

Our Travels by Year

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

Show more Show less

2019 Promaster Van Uncle Robert, aka Conchita

2003 PleasureWay Traverse Ford Poptop Mz Agnes

1987 VW Westy Weekender