Martin Fletcher (2) (1956–)

Started reading this last night and can't put it down--great laughs--best thing is that apart from DC, where he started, and Hilton Head, SC where I spent a week, I have never been to any of the places he went so I'm learning a lot about my 'home'.

Best bit was when he was in Mississippi and thinking about the Delta and 'Twist And Shout' by Mary Chapin Carpenter came on the iPod. So the soundtrack for that part of the book.

I really liked this book, was definitely an America alien to me.

There show more were things that happened well into my lifetime, but I never even heard about them, like Texiana's quest for independence and the sagebrush rebellion in New Mexico. I also re-discovered things like Waco and Ruby Ridge. In general learned how it might be the same country where I grew up, but worlds apart.

One of the laughs ' That means the world's redneck population is increasing, and if it continues to increase I think we can be very optimistic about the next century.' Uh yeah :)

Loved though 'So many of our dreams at first seem impossible and then they seem improbable. But then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.'

Love that line. Great read. show less

Kind of Blue Highways with a Journalists, not-American eye. Not quite as enchanting, but really, really interesting, if you are interested in the weirdos living in far-off places.

Kind of Blue Highways with a Journalists, not-American eye. Not quite as enchanting, but really, really interesting, if you are interested in the weirdos living in far-off places.

Kind of Blue Highways with a Journalists, not-American eye. Not quite as enchanting, but really, really interesting, if you are interested in the weirdos living in far-off places.