[close] When Sean Condon and his laconic pal David decide to take a drive, they mean serious business. In their first book, Sean & David's Long Drive, the two Aussies drove across their native land, with Condon recording the experience in a hip, irreverent riff that was both perceptive and downright hilarious. In Sean & David's Drive Thru America, they give the U.S. the same treatment. Starting with Sean's impersonation of a blind man on the flight from Australia to Montreal--just in case he got stuck with a boring seatmate (he didn't)--and ending with Sean's agreement to deliver a letter to Seattle for a mysterious blind man claiming to have sold his corneas, this automobile odyssey is packed full of the strange and the unexpected. As they travel from East Coast to West, Sean and David test out the perimeters of the American popular culture they ingested through imported television shows, films, and music. Imagined encounters with beat poets, real encounters with Texas good ole boys, and a chronicle of the journey framed as a series of scenes in a movie script all contribute to this loopy, entertaining account of how two Australian guys spent their summer vacation. [close]