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GizmosMom
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Jul 15, 2016

Interstates safer than "Blue Highways?"TRIP UPDATE

We are now retired and I have our summer trip to Colorado planned. We share the driving. I want to travel the back roads and blue highways. I want to take our time. The Interstates make me nervou...
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2lazy4U
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Jul 15, 2016
The term blue highway wasn't invented by Least Heat Moon - it's an old term and also the name of an international tourist route from Norway via Sweden and Finland to Russia. I grew up hearing the term in W. Colorado as a kid in the 50's and 60's.

As for the OP, I would much prefer the rural highways, as you get glimpses of Old America.

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