About US Route 50
"In the brevities just before dawn and a little after dark...it's that time when the pull of the blue highway is strongest, when the open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself."
~ William Least Heat-Moon ("Blue Highways")
US Route 50 stretches just over 3,000 miles from West Sacramento to Ocean City, Maryland while passing through 12 states, 15 major cities and countless small towns. (Before 1972, it reached San Francisco, but has been replaced by the Interstate) The Seattle Post-Intelligencer eloquently states that "the two-lane ribbon of blacktop reaches out to infinity, disappearing into a nearly invisible slot in the mountains on the far horizon. Cloud shadows drift across vast expanses of sagebrush stretching away on either side and the smell of juniper in the air is tangy from a fresh summer thunderstorm. For lovers of wide open spaces, it is the ultimate in mind-expanding highways."
Please post your photos related to this beautiful highway!
Questions & suggestions are always welcome!
The Library of Congress website has some excellent historical photos, such as this one:
www.flickr.com/photos/jamesherman/268070564/in/set-721575...
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