I admit I’ve yet to read any Hunter S. Thompson, other than the opening pages of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas on Amazon.com. But I’ve seen the movie, and one day I will read the whole book. The fact is, I really liked the movie, but I have a hard time rewatching it. There’s […]

On the subject of drugged out road trips, James Michener’s The Drifters takes us on a trip through Spain and northern Africa in a Volkswagen Microbus with some young hippies who have lost their way. The trip starts with a draft dodger who escapes the US through Canada. He meets some new friends in Torremolinos, Spain, […]

I had a special yellow library card when I was growing up that only allowed me to check out books from the young adult section. There was a whole world of books in that library, but beyond the kid stuff, I only had access to one lonely bookcase from Judy Blume to Paul Zindell, one long […]

I can only remember one big road trip with my family where we actually went west of Texas. I was sixteen, and my father had a convention in Colorado Springs. We took an extra week to visit family in Wyoming, saw Yellowstone National Park and some real live mountains.  We took some trips to San […]