Challenges from Exploding Steamboats discussion

I will probably finish reading Promises, Promises. It will be interesting to see what variations on the "road trip" theme you all come up with.

There is the obvious- On the Road by Jack Kerouac but can't say I enjoyed that one.

If you consider hiking trips, not just road trips, Bill Bryon's -A Walk in the Woods- is hilarious. I'm looking at -The Great Typo Hunt- as a more formal road-trip book. I've read some fiction involving road trips; one is on the tip of my brain It was YA and was about a girl trying to go cross-country, on her bicycle, IFRC. I didn't love it, but it would count toward this challenge. I'll try and come up with the full title and share it.

Bill Bryson has a couple of road trip ones, one in the US (not as good as A Walk in the Woods, but that is my favorite so . . .)

Road Fever by Tim Cahill was an adventure -- driving up South America from the southern-most point.

Cheryl wrote: "Bill Bryson has a couple of road trip ones, one in the US (not as good as A Walk in the Woods, but that is my favorite so . . .)

Road Fever by Tim Cahill was an adventure -- driving up South Ameri..."

I'm a big fan of In a Sunburned Country, which is set in Australia.

I mean for this to be a very broadly defined category. The book I have picked out is actually a spoof of a high fantasy quest, so there are no modern roads or conveyances involved.

Love Bill Bryson. The one about Australia had me in fits of laughter.
I have a few Cahill books on TBR but not that one, demmit.

Finished this one with A Fez of the Heart: Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat

Okay, I'll use The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley to fill this slot. I didn't think it was that much of a road trip novel, but the jacket describes it as one.

My book for this is "The Girl From Aleppo: Nujeen's Escape from War to Freedom". Nujeen is a Kurdish girl from Syria who was born with cerebral palsy. She and her sister together fled Syria in 2015. As Nujeen can not walk any distance at all, her sister pushed her the entire way in an old wheelchair, with the belongings they carried, and Nujeen's walker (for times they couldn't use the wheelchair). They left on 22 August, 2015 and arrived in Germany on 15 October. It was a journey of 3,593 miles and cost 5045 Euros.

Wow! That's... I have no words...

There is more to the story, she tells you more about her life, being Kurdish, living in Syria before the war, then how things developed so they felt they had to leave. You can tell she is still young and still learning a lot about life, having been very sheltered because of her disability and being the youngest. However, it is an amazing story. If you would like to read it, I can probably mail it to you from Indiana in August.

It looks like I have a couple more for this challenge

Granny D -- although this woman walked the highways of America -- in her 80s -- it was all on the roads, including dodging semis on the freeways in the desert

Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain

Promises, Promises turned out to be pretty funny. Even more so after I joined an all-female Dungeons & Dragons group.

I also read I'm Thinking of Ending Things for this prompt. It was...interesting. Certain aspects of it were done very well, but I'm not sure I'd recommend it.

Last month I read Red Glass. I highly recommend it, and not just because I'm friends with the author. It's a teen romance, yes, but it's so much more than that and gives an interesting perspective on the immigration issues in Arizona.