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Good read! Apr 16, 2007
This book is about a motorcycle trip the author and three friends took across the southwest a few years ago. One of the friends is querulous and moody, the other is a daredevil, and the fourth is actually the author's brother. They have some trouble getting along. There's some history included, but mostly you get the feeling the author realizes this will probably be the last trip these guys ever take together. There's a section about route 66 that's beautiful:
"There were old boarded-up gas stations here and there and nondescript buildings of brown and gray. It was easy to imagine the hustle and bustle each building must have represented: a café here, a motel there, a service station attendant asking, where are you headed? It was gone now, and the remaining buildings resembled little more than talus piles from an abandoned mine."
There's some funny stuff on the trip, and some great scenes in some of the small towns. The two best are in Tombstone and Truth or Consequences. He has some wicked descriptions about others: "Laughlin clings to the lower section of Nevada like something hung-up on a drain."
I don't think he'll sell many books in Laughlin, but I enjoyed it.
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