Chapter 49: Real-Life Writing Activities for Grades 4-9
Spoiler alert! If you haven't read chapter 49, please stop reading now!!
Ok, now that it's just us, did you type "drive ride repeat" into amazon? I did and didn't find the book, but found "Real-Life Writing Activities for Grades 4-9". There was also an English language book "Four Corners...", but since the 2009 adventure avoided that area (the campgrounds would have been full), I went with the "Real-Life Writing..." in the headline.
All that was my attempt at humor. I presume this whole amazon thing will happen at some later point. But I've got to wonder where this book as been since 2009! I'll admit to not having put the figures into a inflation calculator. I got the message...it was a pretty cheap way to travel (expense usually has an inverse relationship to how adventuresome a trip is, the book had plenty of adventures, even though many of them involved fighting the elements).
This book temporarily caused a change to the second derivative of my circumstances (in the 'good' direction), so thanks, Al, for that! The trip doc segments had the feel of 'happening now' blog entries or a weekly column, presumably because they were (re:references to finding wi-fi and uploading). Besides the missing title of the inventions chapter (PDF) and the wording of the blond joke, I didn't see anything, but I'm about as far away from an editor as could be imagined (could my amazon results be customized for me?)
I loved the writing style. I'm reminded of another New York guy: Dave Barry. Plenty of LOL's, especially Lena's swearing. Interstitially switching between the trip to autobiographical segments I think was effective. And of course the big autobiographical graduation (or would that be daughtergraphical?) Its going to be car-buying time this summer for my daughter (graduating in May).
When's "Dr. Al's Stretch for Life" going to be published?