Leo T. reviewed The Drive: Searching for Lost Memories on the Pan-American Highway on + 1775 more book reviews
I had not seen the book, but the author flogged it on Rick Steve's travel radio program and it seems worth the considerable time he gave it. KPBS 19 August 2018.
Having received it, courtesy of a fellow PBS member, I read several chapters and left it with another ten non-fiction on the free book truck in the VA Hospital lobby.
The first chapter was excellent. She certainly married well to have a husband who would go on this trip. I was surprised that she sold her row house in D.C., near the Capitol, to raise funds for this trip--a long-term lease to raise some money would have been better in case they again work in D.C.
However, the repeated references to her little bro who died as a young boy was disconcerting. I read the chapters retelling their trip through Mexico. They certainly are brave to travel there at this time; it didn't used to be so lawless. What they saw and felt is well told and they purposely stopped at off the beaten path places where they enjoyed the people they met.
Taking up the journey in Peru, the descriptions seem a little hurried to me, but by then they were worn out.
I would have included a paragraph of her prose to give you an idea but the PBS site was down for 'remodeling' for three days....
There are some pictures.
No index.
Having received it, courtesy of a fellow PBS member, I read several chapters and left it with another ten non-fiction on the free book truck in the VA Hospital lobby.
The first chapter was excellent. She certainly married well to have a husband who would go on this trip. I was surprised that she sold her row house in D.C., near the Capitol, to raise funds for this trip--a long-term lease to raise some money would have been better in case they again work in D.C.
However, the repeated references to her little bro who died as a young boy was disconcerting. I read the chapters retelling their trip through Mexico. They certainly are brave to travel there at this time; it didn't used to be so lawless. What they saw and felt is well told and they purposely stopped at off the beaten path places where they enjoyed the people they met.
Taking up the journey in Peru, the descriptions seem a little hurried to me, but by then they were worn out.
I would have included a paragraph of her prose to give you an idea but the PBS site was down for 'remodeling' for three days....
There are some pictures.
No index.
