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Idaho Revealed on Road Trip

The Great American Road Trip

OtherworldDestination: Idaho

Book: Five Skies by Ron Carlson

As I read Five Skies, I realized I was learning something about my father, that I had never thought about before. That’s the way it is with novels that rise above the ordinary. Literature teaches us something about the people we know, as well as bringing to life  places and people we don’t know. Continue reading Idaho Revealed on Road Trip

Most Popular Road Trip States

Running on the Map

The Great American Road Trip

Have you been enjoying Wednesdays on the road??  We’re not back on the road yet, but thought you might look back through the family album at the most popular stops on the road trip so far. Only ten more stops to go and we will have covered the country coast to coast and then some. It has been a great ride. Continue reading Most Popular Road Trip States

Road Trip Visits Mark Twain in MO

Hannibal MO

See where The Great American Road Trip 7-2010 has been in a larger map.

The Great American Road Trip

Destination: Missouri

Book: Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain, in The Library of America Edition

Mark Twain, who captured America like no other American writer, wandered the globe and lived abroad nearly as many years as he lived in the United States. As a matter of fact many of his most American books were penned while he luxuriated in villas in the Italian countryside. Continue reading Road Trip Visits Mark Twain in MO