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John Robinson comes from a family of teachers. And they taught him to be observant. They just didn't realize what he would end up studying. In a bizarre experiment that lasted 13 years, he drove every mile of every road on his state highway map. In three insightful books, he recorded what he saw.
You can follow his journey, and find his favorite spots. But these books are not travel guides. They're commentaries on life. He penetrated beyond the edges of civilization, peeked into the real American heartland, and lived to tell about it.
His books are "on the road" adventures blending local characters and mom-and-pop food into an archipelago of tasty stories. He dives deep into the wilderness, where the nearest neighbors are coyotes, and the bul
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Love this rollercoaster.

The road to Falling Spring is a destination in itself. Missouri highway delivers you there. And Falling Spring Mill has been restored.

But wait. There’s more.

A little further down the road, Greer Spring busts out of a mountainside gushing 222 million gallons of water per day.

This road truly is the Rollercoaster to the Springs.

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I was a young reader enduring the scourge of attention deficit disorder when Jack London lassoed my focus to the harsh realities of the Great Northwest in his short story, To Build A Fire. Alas, for 60 years my mind wandered through life's blizzards ...more
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Francie and I shared one task in common: Each of us spent months engaged with the Press Clipping Service, Francie poring through newspapers, me reading the clips. Francie survives the harshness of life by by learning "Education would pull them out of ...more
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“If we don't preserve our natural heritage, and put back what we take out, these attractions won't be worth visiting.”
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“Passing on knowledge is the most satisfying form of recycling. That and yard sales.”
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“Many of life’s transitions are marked by yard sales.”
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“The last movie I paid to see was a video of my own colon.”
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“People in icewater want hell.”
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“Many of life’s transitions are marked by yard sales.”
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“If we don't preserve our natural heritage, and put back what we take out, these attractions won't be worth visiting.”
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“Never underestimate an ocean's omnipotence, or the power of the written word.”
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