He is well-known for his previous travel narratives, Blue Highways and PrairyEarth. His recently published book, River Horse, tells the story of his immense boat journey. Very early in the voyage, technical difficulties led Least Heat Moon to postpone the voyage. The interviewer asked if he ever considered canceling it altogether, in the face of these difficulties. Anyone who's ever undertaken a long, arduous voyage, a dream-trek, knows what he means.
True journeyers move on anyway, seeing temporary obstacles as just that-temporary.
Voyagers know that if they quit, they will not be the people they want to be, and this desire for a new self, more than anything, is often what drives them on. Used under License.