This is arm chair travel at a most unusual level: The Time Traveler’s Handbook: 18 Experiences From the Eruption of Vesuvius to Woodstock, by James Wyllie, Johnny Acton & David Goldblatt. Join WAG (see the last names) in some grand adventures back in time. Written like a guide book, you are told how you need to dress or speak, what you can expect to eat, what your lodgings will be like. You are also told how to behave, and what sort of behavior will have you removed! Witty and clever ... and you even get to be an extra in a movie!

Authors Wayne Grady and his wife Merilyn Simonds decided to avoid the harsh weather of December in the prairie provinces and take the long way home by traveling down the west coast of the US, across the south, and up the east coast. Well, the best laid plans and all that, it was an El Nino year with cold, wintery weather (including snow) in places that normally did not see that while at home, in Canada, the weather was unusually moderate. Still, they soldiered on, looking for the smaller motels, the mom and pop eateries, and meeting interesting people. The result was Breakfast at the Exit Cafe: Travels Through America. Look for some familiar pnw locations!

Reading Hermit With Dog