Highways West!

Be prepared to be surprised by the wonders of the open road, the places you will visit and the wonderful people you will meet on your travels across the Western U.S.

- Stuart Rosebrook

For the past year my travel books and maps have been stacking up with sticky notes and bookmarks. Routes are highlighted across the maps, and I don’t know how many trips I’ve created in Google Maps and MapQuest. I love traveling, and I especially love driving across the Western United States. I’ve driven cross-country more than a dozen times in every direction imaginable and particularly enjoy leaving the interstates and slowing the pace on state or county roads with their curves, inevitable speed traps and charming communities. I’ve told my family many times, “You can’t discover America from an airplane 35,000 feet in the air; you’ve got to see it