Elizabeth's Reviews > A Walk Across America

** spoiler alert ** This book was written the year I was born and I remember a copy of my family bookshelf while growing up, but hadn't read it until my book club chose it.
I hate spoilers but I looked through the pictures at the beginning and saw the one of him burying his dog Cooper (wahhhhh) so I knew that was coming. He wrote so flowery and over the top about the dog and I wondered how that would have changed if he would survived the whole trip. Since I knew it was coming I didn't tear up but a few other places I did.
Anyway, it was a great travelogue from a guy in the 70s walking from New York to New Orleans (nice little surprise at the end). He didn't like America (crazy how his introductory thoughts could be written by a young person of today and is a little how I felt at 22 as well) but the walk made him fall in love with his country-the beauty and the people (though there were negative experiences as well).
I had heard about the Farm in TN because I had a baby with a midwife and it was the birth place of modern midwifery but I didn't realize quite how interesting it was!
I really enjoyed it and was glad to read a book about some of the states we will be driving through this summer!