Scan barcode
sandyd's review
4.0
I love travel books, and this was a good one. The author is an English college professor who lives in Vermont, who decided to re-do his youthful 1973 hitchhiking journey across America in 1999.
He absolutely hated Detroit and its outskirts: "a sight from hell, from a Hieronymus Bosch painting, but a modern Bosch, with no hellish, contorted people, just hellish contorted objects: refinery piping, tanks, high-tension wires. The air was hot and fetid; it smelled like a fume hood....The on-ramp to I-75 was one of the nastiest palces I've hitched in my life. The roadside was littered with bits of fiberglass, a steel flotsam and jetsam of car parts, a syringe, and a plastic tampon applicator. People in huge American cars stared at me as if I were a hunchback."
He absolutely hated Detroit and its outskirts: "a sight from hell, from a Hieronymus Bosch painting, but a modern Bosch, with no hellish, contorted people, just hellish contorted objects: refinery piping, tanks, high-tension wires. The air was hot and fetid; it smelled like a fume hood....The on-ramp to I-75 was one of the nastiest palces I've hitched in my life. The roadside was littered with bits of fiberglass, a steel flotsam and jetsam of car parts, a syringe, and a plastic tampon applicator. People in huge American cars stared at me as if I were a hunchback."
debnanceatreaderbuzz's review
4.0
Brookes recreates his hitchhiking
adventures from the early 1970's
as he attempts to hitchhike across
America. Recommended.
adventures from the early 1970's
as he attempts to hitchhike across
America. Recommended.
More...