sentences:  He had coined the term to refer to small, forgotten, out-of-the-way roads connecting rural America (which were drawn in blue on the old style Rand McNally road atlas).He outfitted his van with a bunk, a camping stove, a portable toilet and a copy of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" and John Neihardt's "Black Elk Speaks".Referring to the Native American resurrection ritual, he named the van "Ghost Dancing", and embarked on a three-month soul-searching tour of the United States, wandering from small town to small town, stopping often at towns with interesting names.