The author talks here about how he likes to carry a walking stick with him when he goes for his strolls. I think my favorite essay was With A Good Stick In Hand from 2002. Crossing Kansas (1988)was both funny and thought-provoking, with its meditation on the whys and wherefores of American travel. I did enjoy Up Among The Roadside Gods (1987) about a trip to Japan, and also The Nose Of Chaac about Yucatan Mexico. Written in 1987 when a micro-brewery was still a new idea, it was informative but since I am not a beer drinker, I did not thrill to the descriptions of the chase for the perfect bottle of suds. I could not get interested in the long piece about craft beer, for example. But like in any such book, I enjoyed some and skimmed others. I have read (pre-GR) at least three other titles by this author so I was looking forward to this collection of various essays that had appeared in magazines over the years.
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