This is a book from the early 1990s, where the author decides about a year in advance to break away from his normal living. He is in KC area and decides he wants to walk to Helena, MT and then get a canoe and come back to KC down the Missouri River. This book is about his walk, I guess he has another book out there about the canoe trip. This being the early 1990s, there is no cell phone for him so lots of stops and calls back to his young daughter from pay phones. Story about the people he meets during this journey. Some interesting and a couple scary type people. He doesn't walk the whole way, he doesn't hitchhike but does accept rides. Enjoyed hearing about small towns. Sad hearing about the people with really no opportunities in those small towns and how the Walmarts and fast food places really have taken over back then & expect it to be much worse today. Since I grew up on small town NE, this book was written just before large numbers of Hispanics moved into some of these towns, be interesting to see the changes that I would expect for the better because of this.
I got the book from PBS but is not really postable, water stain at bottom of at least 3rd of pages. I would like to mail on but really cannot. Will probably go in my give away pile instead.
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