I'm suffering from post-election, post-New Year's hangover, and I think reality is setting in. It's time for a good escape....started a book entitled "Cross Country: Fifteen Years and 90,000 Miles on the Roads and Interstates of Amer..." blah, blah, blah (long title) about a transcontinental trip from Portland to New York by author Robert Sullivan, his wife, and two kids. It was recommended by my brother-in-law (not a bad read, bro).
Less than a hundred pages in and following the return path of Lewis and Clark (much to the disinterest of his family), the author and family top Lolo Pass on Highway 12, take a dip in the hot springs, and decide to spend the night in Missoula. The next morning they park downtown to get some coffee and visit a few shops. They...
"stop at a great little bookstore just up from the Missoula train station and buy way too many books, stuffing our car in a fashion that would halt our progress entirely if we were crossing the country the way families first did, when the United States was expanding shortly after the return of Lewis and Clark." (p.78)
Hmm... I wonder what book store Sullivan is referring to? (wink)
Next stop: a round of golf at the black slag lined hazards of the Old Works in Anaconda.
1 comment:
I'm glad you're enjoying the book so far. Robert Sullivan writes the way I'd write a book if I were able to write books.
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