As Far as You Can Go without a Passport: The View from the End of the Road

As Far as You Can Go without a Passport: The View from the End of the Road

by TomBodett (Author)

Synopsis

Tom Bodett, humorist, radio star, and pitchman for Motel 6, lives and writes in Homer, Alaska, the little town in the blue Northwest where America stops, carwise. If you got into your car in New York, he said, and wanted to take a nice long drive, I mean the longest drive you could without turning around or running into a foreign language, this is where you'd wind up. It's a place of moose and salmon and spectacular sunsets, but, Bodet insists, it's also small-town America, a place not all that different from the Michigan town of his youth. That's why he's made it his everyday, for the rigors of the outdoor life and the mundane joys of the family circle. As Far As You Can Go Without a Passport, Bodett's first collection of casual essays, contains pieces on eveything from trapping, tree cutting, and halilbut fishing, to soap operas, lost socks, and sleeping in. It's guaranteed to please both the renegate and the homebody in every reader.

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10 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc
Published: 01 Jan 1986

ISBN 10: 0201106736
ISBN 13: 9780201106732

Author Bio
Tom Bodett was born in 1955 and grew up in Sturgis, Michigan. He has been a cannery worker, a logger, an independent building contractor, and a commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. He lives with his wife and son in Homer, Alaska, from where he hosted The End of the Road Review, a nationally syndicated weekly radio variety show.