The Longest Road : Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean (Paperback)

from ArieJvdP

Partial disclosure: I can all too well remember turning 30, back when 30 was seen as the end. Have since survived several decades more, thank you. In this book, Phil Caputo celebrates his 70th birthday, as I expect to soon enough. He celebrated that milestone [pun intended] on the road somewhere ...

from jastbrown

The Longest Road was an enjoyable book. I liked everything in it, I just wanted there to be more of it. And when I see that there were 320 pages I realize that no matter how much more there was to it, it wouldn't have been enough! I just like road books.. I enjoy meeting the characters one meets ...

from snash

Philip Caputo wanted to take a long trip. He used various ways to give it meaning so his book describing the trip would capture the reader. He chose to go from the most southern to the most northern points of the US. He followed old Indian or frontier trails when possible, and he asked those he m...

from ritaer

Certain ingredients seem to be a requirement of Road books: a vehicle with quirks that must be mastered; an unlikely or distant destination; meetings with friendly, salt of the earth people; a meeting or more with cranky, possibly bigoted people; miles and miles of boring scenery; miles and miles...

from madnessabides

Ever since my teen years when I discovered 'On the Road' I have always loved a good road book... as a young man I lived the dream (thanks to cheap gas and a pop up tent stashed in the trunk of my car) and wandered this beautiful nation in search of something - never quite realizing that the freed...