William Least Heat-Moon
William Least Heat-Moon
William Least Heat-Moon, also named William Lewis Trogdon, is an American travel writer and historian of English, Irish, and Osage ancestry. He is the author of various bestselling books of topographical U.S. travel writing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth27 August 1939
CountryUnited States of America
yesterday bikers
No yesterdays on the road.
ivory cooking cajuns
Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.
cowboy america lasts
Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.
miles wanted known
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.
memories men achievement
Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
discovery errors joy
Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.
journey long matter
A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
dream journey voyages
...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?
adventure ignorance
Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.
dirty boys world
The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build it, the motel remains the haunt of the quick and dirty, where the only locals are Chamber of Commerce boys every fourth Thursday. Who ever heard the returning traveler exclaim over one of the great motels of the world he stayed in? Motels can be big, but never grand.
wanted knows
I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
community want firsts
Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.