I decided to start this blog off with a haiku (original post below). If you're unfamiliar with this terse poetic style, a Google search on the term yields some informative results. Traditionally, a haiku's subject matter tends to be simple observations of the natural world, so to devote this blog to haiku about the Mother Road (a decidedly man-made entity) is deliberately perverse or something. Here's another:

Venturesome spirits
follow the serpent west;
Joyous summer spent.