Blue Highways

In his traveling diary, Blue Highways, William Least heat Moon takes a trip to various destinations around the United States. His journey is both literal and spiritual. While circling the nation, he gathers history and personality from all corners of America. More importantly, Least Heat Moon sets out to fully explore and find himself. Before his expedition around the country began, William Least Heat Moon experienced two significant life-changing events. His wife abandoned him after …

…able to find himself. By the end of the book, his circle had come full turn, but he had not. Moon states that, "I can't say over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know," (411). In a sense, William Least Heat Moon's adventure allowed him to become a full Moon.