Description
There's something about hitting the open road - especially the back roads of America - that is enticing and appealing to me. In the spring of 2016, my wife and I got the idea to leave our 9-5 jobs behind and take the road trip of a lifetime.xa0When we announced our intentions on our Facebook page, we were overwhelmed with messages from people that said they had always planned to take a trip just like this... but they waited too long. Every person's reason for not being able to go were different - failing health, failing eyesight, just getting too old to travel that far - but each message I read inspired me to do it now, before it gets too late.We set off with an atlas, a handful of state road maps, and a dream of seeing our great nation. We did just that, traveling over 13,000 miles around America. We saw National Parks and Monuments, tourist traps (yes, we saw the World's Largest Ball of Twine) and best of all, met the people who live in the small towns of the USA.xa0If you're looking for a traditional travel book, this really isn't it. This is a diary of our trip, pictures included, all told from my own skewed perspective. For us, this was the trip of a lifetime. We'd love to have you come along on our epic road trip. Shawn Inmon hails from Mossyrock, Washington--the setting for his first two books, Feels Like the First Time, and Both Sides Now. He is a full time author who lives in picturesque Seaview, Washington on the Pacific Ocean. Shawn says he has learned everything he knows by having 400 different jobs. For twenty years, he worked as a Managing Broker of a real estate office. Prior to that, he DJed at radio stations in Montana, Wyoming, Washington and California, sold stuff that you definitely wanted, cooked your hamburgers, fished for crabs, bought for department stores, and traveled the country with the Unlimited Hydroplanes. He is married to his high school sweetheart, Dawn. He has five daughters, a passel of grandchildren, and is the best pal of two chocolate labs named Hershey and Sadie.
Features & Highlights
- Have you ever wanted to quit your job, jump in the car with the person you love the most, and see what’s around the next bend in the road? I did. My wife and I were crazy enough to quit good jobs, pack our suitcases and head for the open road. We took two months and drove through thirty states, visited more than a dozen national parks, and put thirteen thousand miles of twisting country roads under our wheels. We found once again that the journey is greater than the destination. There’s room in the backseat. We’d love for you to come along with us on our lap around America.
