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199744Bill Geist14440
Such awesomeness.
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I'd really like to attend the Mike the Headless Chicken Festival in Fruita, Colorado. Sounds like a winner.
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Great stuff abounds within the pages of this book. The Unclaimed Baggage Center, for one.
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This book is gonna be amazing. I read about a stand still parade, the church of the holy bbq, frozen dead guy days, and other goodies today.
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http://bit.ly/h0oM1, and revel in what CBS considers some of his best contributions to their news programs over the past 30 years.
This is a guy who doesn't shy away from going up in the air on a newspaper delivery route with a 90+ year-old one-engine-prop-plane pilot (the oldest in the country), or on a mail route down into the Grand Canyon, on mules. Nor is he afraid of traveling to Beaver, Oklahoma to check out the source of the world's best cow chips. I could go on, but, that would ruin the fun.
Way Off the Road details some of the best that small-town America has to offer, and really captures what I myself absolutely love about these small-towns: people doing what they do, without a care in the world about what anyone else thinks.
Some people may want to travel the country and visit NYC, or LA, Chicago, your big cities.
Not me. I wanna travel to Nederland, CO, where they have the Frozen Dead Guy Festival, or to Huntsville, TX and visit the Church of the Holy BBQ (for the 2nd time actually - the 1st time I didn't appreciate it).
If you've ever been curious about that tiny town you always pass by on the highway, and just what goes on there, this is the book for you. It's a quick, light, and endearing read that really embodies both the essence of Geist, and the essence of what makes these lands great.
One line at the end of the next to last chapter of the book sums it up quite nicely:
"It's nice to see, in these days of self-important people doing 'relevant' things ('Fishing Not Drugs,' 'Pizza for Peace'), that some are still doing things simply for the hell of it."