And as usual, by top ten I mean “the first ten that occurred to me”. But first, the customary tease:
The U.S. military is also a “self-licking ice cream cone,” as American GIs called it in Vietnam, dedicated to its own perpetuation at any cost, and conveniently, continually creating the disasters which are said to require their next intervention. PROVOKED, Scott Horton.
(1) The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Frye, Rachel Joyce. An aging man receives news that someone from his past is dying, and as he begins a walk to the post office to deliver a letter to her, he stumbles into a walking journey across the whole of England.
(2) A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson’s humorous account of trying the Appalachian Trail, at least the most notable parts of it.
(3) The Hobbit | Lord of the Rings. Like it’s possible to mention books with travel that doesn’t include LOTR?
(4) Hey, Mom, Can I Ride my Bike Across America? John Siegel Boettner
(5) Every single Rick Riordan book can be summarized thusly: MAIN CHARACTER and their TWO FRIENDS must DO AN EPIC ROAD TRIP to stop CHAOS MONSTER from destroying the universe on the SOLSTICE/EQUINOX.
(6) Cities of Gold. A horseback journey across the southwest, retracing Coronado’s path looking for “El Dorado”. The author, Douglas Preston, later penned a sequel in which he is joined by his wife and stepdaughter on another horseback trip to learn about the Navajo.
(7) A Walk Across America, Peter Jenkins. A visit to 1970s America.
(8) Revolutionary Ride, Lois Pryce. A British lass experiences Rouhani-era Iran on a motorbike. Related: Neither East nor West, a 1970s travelogue, had the same premise.
(9) Country Driving, a tour of China’s hinterlands.
(10) Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck. Steinbeck takes a RV trip with his dog through 1962 America and is distressed to find it increasingly plastic and homogenous.
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The Hobbit should definitely be included in this sort of list!
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A Walk in the Woods sounds excellent.
I have technically walked on a small part of the Appalachian trail. It lasted about five minutes when my family spotted it on vacation while I was a kid. But then we needed to drive on to our motel, so it was probably about the shortest hike of that trail a person can do. Ha!
That’s kind of how Bryson got into it! He realized he lived very near a section and decided, what the heck?
I remember seeing Jenkins books on my parents shelves. Never interested me, not like the Heinleins did :’D
When I found this book, I was walking seven miles a day, so it was immediately interesting even without the historic element!
wonderful list! Harold Fry is a favorite!
Both as a book and a movie!
Of course The Hobbit 🤣 , I never said read Percy Jackson though! thanks for dropping by my list!
My pleasure!
I have Harold Fry in my top ten this week too! I could also have included the sequel about his wife, Maureen, as she makes the same journey by car.
I keep meaning to try Bryson’s books, but I still haven’t done it. I hear they’re very entertaining. Great list!
Happy TTT!
Susan
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I’ve read a lot of them and it’s honestly hit and miss between “Funny” and “Grumpy trying to be funny”.
I am drawn to stories about road trips and travels, and I’ve read most of these. Revolutionary Ride and Cities of Gold are the exceptions. Thanks for this great list of books.
Great list. I read your first three books and have Travels with Charley on my list. But I am sure I will add one or the other from this to my wishlist. Thanks for that.
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Great list! I have read your top 3 and the last one.
And relistened to the part of Bryson’s book set in Georgia, on our way to walk a small part of the Trail in that State!
Alas, the movie is terrible