In 2010, unable to find any teaching jobs in California, I loaded my minivan with my belongings and drove 5,000 miles towards Pennsylvania where I heard they were hiring. I kept a daily blog on Facebook and as people followed it, what I planned as a week-long trip ended up being a month. I visited historic sites, visited friends and family and talked a lot about mid-life changes in an attempt to understand things when all the plans you have made fall apart. Three decades earlier I had read William Least Heat Moon's wonderful book "Blue Highways" having no idea I would someday be doing something similar.
