This is my newest blog, my third blog. I had discovered that I was beginning to rush through my other travel blog, "In My Travels," because I wanted to write about my most recent vacation where I spent time in Arizona and New Mexico and I had been putting a half-hearted effort into my vacation journal that I have been working on since September. I still enjoyed writing about it, but the interest was starting to wane and that is not a good sign for someone who wants to be a writer. The name of this blog, "Free As The Wind," signifies two things. First of all, it signifies the way I feel when I am out on the open road, traveling the highways and byways of this great land, exploring ghost towns, taking the road less traveled and trying to get a firm grasp on what makes this country so great. It also signifies the fact that I can now concentrate on everything that I want to write about and not have to rush through my current projects and, in the process,forget some of the details that I want to talk about now. People often say "Americans have no culture," but I stongly disagree. The best way to see America is to get off the interstates and away from the big cities. Shortly after the interstate highway system opened in the 1950s, someone said (I don't remember his name), "it is now possible to drive from coast to coast without seeing anything." That is so true.
So, in closing, I hope anyone that reads this blog or my other 2 blogs, feels entertained, moved,or just plain happy when they read my words. But don't just read my words, contemplate them, analyze them, think about them. That way you will get a better feel for what I am trying to parlay in my blogs.
One thing I always say is that it is a tragedy that all some of us see of the world is what we can see from the highways. There is so much more out there but you have to be willing to go out of the way and take those less traveled roads and even hike out into the woods to really see America.
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