Travel America

South Dakota state government lawyer Billy Swanson is forced into early retirement by a new supervisor half his age. Humiliated by the totally unexpected loss of his job, Billy decides to take a long driving trip to fill some time while he figures out what to do with his life. Billy will soon learn that much of America outside the heartland of the country has become an incredibly dangerous place to be. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a Canadian lawyer who has penned more than 100 novels since his retirement in 2009. Please check out his Author Page on Amazon for details about ...

When fly-fishing guide Rusty Wilson decides he's tired of listening to others talk about their Bigfoot stories and instead wants his own encounter, a strange series of events leads him into the wilds of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, with an eventual rendezvous in the rugged mountains of Montana.

Concerned about a pending real estate crash, lawyer and widower Drake Danford sells his home in Kingston, New York and retires before the foreclosures begin and ruin any morsel of enjoyment still left in his real estate law practice. Drake sets out on a solo driving trip and happens upon the tiny city of Grafton, West Virginia. A series of unrelated events lead to utter contentment and unexpected but welcome romance. That old John Denver song turned out to be pretty accurate when it proclaimed "ALMOST HEAVEN, WEST VIRGINIA." ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian ...

This beautiful literary collection explores the spectacular natural features of Yosemite through the eyes of some of the most extraordinarily talented writers. In 1851, Lafayette Bunnell chronicled his travels with the Mariposa Battalion, the first non-natives to visit Yosemite Valley. Following in his footsteps, Theodore Roosevelt, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Clarence King, Frederick Law Olmsted, Joaquin Miller, and Horace Greeley made their pilgrimages and were moved to recount their observations. Included here as well is the work of John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club.

This extraordinary travel book tells the true story of how in 1997 writer Michael Paterniti agreed to take a road trip from New Jersey to California, reuniting the preserved brain of the great scientist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) with his granddaughter Evelyn. Paterniti's improbable travelling companion is 84-year-old Thomas Harvey, the pathologist who not only removed Einstein's brain from his head during the autopsy but purloined it from Princeton Hospital also!

His Road Trip 6 is the final book in a chronological series about our adventures in an RV while traveling the US Lower 48, Canada, and Alaska. They offer priceless details of this great country, its people, our faith; how we sold everything we owned to follow the Lord’s plan for us. Our history together, surviving the death of our son, even going to heaven and living to tell about it…a story for everyone! His Road Trip 6 takes off during our trip from Alaska, across the beautiful Rockies and finally, home. The rest of the book recaps the Best and Worst of everything we experienced in ...

In 1995, schoolteacher Melissa Cook and her young family spent two years in the isolated Aleut village of Nelson Lagoon on the edge of the Bering Sea. They later settled in the Tongass National Forest on Prince of Wales Island, where they measured rain in feet. With humor, vivid detail, and heart-pounding excitement, Melissa recounts her family's daily joys, struggles, and captivating adventures.

Arkansas has long been a land rich in history and lore, and few of the events associated with The Natural State are more compelling and provocative than those associated with lost mines and buried treasures. Within this audiobook, award-winning author W.C. Jameson has captured and interpreted the most complete collection of these rich and varied stories of lost treasure.

USA National Parks: Lands of Wonder is a celebration of these magnificent parks - packed with inspiring ideas for your next adventure, whether you want to be alone amid the vast and haunting wilderness of Alaska's Denali Park or get up close to the teeming tropical wildlife of Florida's Everglades. All 62 national parks are covered, showcasing what makes each one unique, with maps, facts and figures, things to do, and when and where to experience it at its best.

**Awards:** New Mexico-Arizona Book Award Finalist, 2024; Royal Dragonfly First Place in Letters, Diaries, and Journals, 2024; Global Book Awards Silver Medalist in Biography and Memoir, 2024. Do you want to get away from it all? Meet Kent. Overwhelmed by the indifference of his South Dakota undergraduate students and fed up with American politics of the 1980s, he yearns for a life of adventure. Then, he discovers sailboats. While retirement seems financially out of reach, living on a sailboat opens up a world of exhilarating possibilities. Imagine letting the wind guide your family ...

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Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noe Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother. A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez struggled to fit in. At 19, he learned about a Native American/First Nations movement called the Peace and Dignity Journeys, epic marathons meant to renew cultural connections across North America. He dropped out of school and joined a group runners, all fleeing difficult beginnings. Telling their stories and his own, Álvarez writes about a four-month-long journey from Canada to Guatemala.

Two friends. One Amazing vacation. A deadly betrayal. San Francisco businesswoman Cathryn Prentis’ dream of visiting Peru’s Machu Picchu turns into a living nightmare on October 21, 2003 when she is arrested in the Lima airport and charged with transporting cocaine. Advised by DEA agents, Peruvian lawyers, family and friends to plead guilty and do anything she can—legally or illegally—to escape Peru, Cathryn must choose: should she plead guilty or should she maintain her innocence and risk a deadly prison sentence? And can she overcome a foreign culture she can’t trust, a language...

Where...and when...was she? And was this mountain man really her husband? Imagine waking up in your favorite historical romance story...and getting a thinner, rejuvenated body at the same time. That might sound ideal, but dealing with cougars, creeps, and kidnappers isn't. Join 20th century-born Evie as she deals with the hardships of living in the backwoods of Revolutionary War-era North Carolina while dealing with a severe case of AMNESIA, being ABANDONED by the man who claimed her as his wife, and ADOPTIONS, using nothing but her wit and grit, give or take a knife or two...and the ...

📖 Book Description (Optimized for KDP Listing): 🔮 Mysterious disappearances, haunted highways, UFO encounters, and ghostly apparitions—this is the Paranormal Map of the U.S.A.! From Skinwalker Ranch in Utah to the mystical swamps of Louisiana, this book uncovers 25 of the most haunted and mysterious locations in America. Explore eyewitness accounts, historical secrets, and chilling scientific debates as we dive into places where the unexplained thrives. 👻 Are these locations truly paranormal, or is there a logical explanation hidden beneath the fear? 🚀 Perfect for ghost ...

As a practicing immigration attorney for many years, I have had to help many clients solve some of the most common problems simply because they had no knowledge of the immigration laws of the United States. Whether you were born in the US, are currently in the US, or even are planning to come to America, this book is for you.

Greater Than a Tourist: Oaxaca by Author Connie Carreño offers first-hand and personal insight into the best ways to visit Oaxaca city, the Green Antequera. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the ‘Greater Than a Tourist’ series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Three Journeys to Patagonia tells the story of Nick Green's love affair with Latin America: it charts his progress backpacking the subcontinent as a teenager, as an aspiring travel writer in his twenties, and later as a confirmed adventurer and Patagonia aficionado in his thirties. Nick tells the story of how once Patagonia had come into his life in 1991, it remained in his consciousness, compelling him to read around the subject, to study it, and to visit the region again and again. Three Journeys to Patagonia asks why so many travellers have experienced the same overwhelming emotions and ...

If you want to learn about the best places to eat, drink, and explore in the Mile High City, then check out HowExpert Guide to Denver, Colorado. This comprehensive guide to the Mile High City brings to life one of the most exciting cities in the United States. Denver has built on its rich Western history to become a modern metropolis that welcomes everyone. From the largest collection of microbreweries in the world to vibrant art and cultural scene to endless outdoor activities, Denver offers something for everyone.

American Oz is a rollicking, gritty, adventurous story of life in the secretive subculture of traveling carnivals. You'll never see your state fair or street festival the same way again. Comerford writes a bold, inspiring true story of a year working behind the scenes with the colorful characters and legends of carnivals. He shares stories of freaks, a carnival pimp, a tramp gold miner, and the last king of the sideshows.