How Many Hills To Hillsboro

by Fred Bauer

The ups and downs of a young families bicycling adventure across America.

Genres: Travel

215 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1969

About the author

FRED BAUER has written more than a dozen books, including How Many Hills to Hillsboro?, Everett Dirksen: The Man and His Words, For Rainy Mondays and Other Dry Spells (a book of poems), Then Sings My Soul (with George Beverly Shea), Putting It All Together (with Brooks Robinson), Daily Guideposts 1977 and 1978, The Springhouse Daily Devotional and In the Vineyard of the Lord (with Helen Steiner Rice).
Born in Ohio, he has had wide experience in communications, having worked in the newspaper, radio and magazine fields before turning to books. He makes his home in Princeton, New Jersey.

Reviews

[Clarissa]

This book arrived to us via my husband’s co-worker. For one who had ridden down the pacific coast by bike, it is a must read! Despite the 50 year difference in time, there are still a lot of the same trials and tribulations that still occur while bike touring. I enjoyed the author/father’s frank descriptions and story telling. This brought me back to my bike tour and rekindled the itch for another bike tour in the future.

[Linda]

A light and fun read!! Another book on the bookshelf that deserved a reread!!

A family decides to ride their bicycles from the East Coast to California one summer. These are not fancy bicycles at all.

Surprisingly, the state that got to them the most was Kansas!! It was July and the combination of winds and no shade made it slow going!!

A nice book.