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About Heartland Highways: In Search of America (Unabridged)

John W. Butler is an award-winning author and broadcaster. An authentic voice with stories from the roads less traveled." He invites you to trade screens for scenes. Put your phone down. Turn off the noise. Take a road trip. Talk to real people. The audiobook opens in a roadside diner when a farmer asks him, “Road trip or running away?” The answer becomes the engine of the narrative. Is he fleeing noise in the news, unresolved grief over his late wife, and years of quiet anger at God? Or is he running toward connection, toward healing, toward a country that exists beyond headlines? At its core, this is a story about second acts. About a man who raised two children alone after his wife’s death, who buried anger under productivity, and who now risks being changed. As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary and the centennial of Route 66, there is a renewed global curiosity about what America is, beyond headlines and caricature. HEARTLAND HIGHWAYS: IN SEARCH OF AMERICA arrives at that exact moment. It is a 33,321-mile road trip across big cities, small towns, tribal lands, farm roads, and forgotten main streets, written not to sell a myth but to test it against real conversations and long horizons.