It's a ring of home pages for people who'd rather take the long way. Road trips, camping, hiking, fishing, surfing, old cars and new ones, the desert, the mountains, the beach, the diner at the crossroads. If your page is about going somewhere, or about the thing that gets you there, it belongs here.

We (that's Hank and Peggy) started the ring in the spring of 1999. We'd been on the road in our van for two years and kept finding pages by folks doing the same kind of thing: a family driving to Hawaii's volcanoes, a fella fixing up a Mustang, a young man surfing before work. We thought, these people ought to be able to find each other. So we asked Bob and Linda Henderson, who run the Front Porch WebRing, how it's done, and here we are.

How it works: Every member page has the Backroads WebRing box near the bottom. Click Next to go on down the road to the next site, Prev to turn around, or List Sites to come back here to the map. The ring is a loop, so after the last site you're back at the first, just like a good Sunday drive.

Room for plenty more on the ring. Here's how:

1. Have a page that fits. Road trips, travel, camping, hiking, fishing, surfing, cars, trucks, motorcycles, the outdoors, or the little towns and diners in between. Personal home pages, mostly, though a friendly small business that fits the theme is welcome too.
2. Keep it family-friendly. Our grandkids read these pages. Nothing you wouldn't say in front of a nine-year-old or your mother-in-law. We look at every page before it goes on.
3. E-mail the ringmasters at [email protected] with your page's title, its address (URL), your name, where you're from, and a line about what your page is about.
4. Paste in the ring code. Once we've had a look, we'll send you back the ring code: the Backroads WebRing box, like the one at the bottom of this page, with your own Prev and Next links filled in. Paste it near the bottom of your page and you're on the ring. Please don't change the links, or the ring gets a flat.

Be patient with us, please. We answer e-mail whenever we find a library with a computer, which can be a week or two if we're out in the mountain states. We will get to you.