How Can I Be Lost When I Don't Know Where I'm Going : Wandering Across the Continent with Barb Thacker and her dog, Ink

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Summary: Puhleeese!
Review: This is a more or less verbatim rendering of her diary and a deadly boring read. All her visits to friends are detailed. This might be nice in a letter to mutual friends but the fact that the Grahams were moving from Ghost Ranch to Durango or that "Barbara and her husband were contemplating a divorce" is not of interest to me.

And then there are the teasers that turn out to be dead ends, for example, "I had never been to Crested Butte and just loved the name. Sure enough, the road was marked. We headed down a hill and past an interesting guest ranch. About three blocks later, the pavement ended. Nothing but gravel. I wasn't sure Tessie (the nickname of her vehicle) was ready for 20 miles of mountainous gravel road, nor did I feel I was ready to tackle it either. We turned around and went back to Route 133 which led us north through beautiful country. The weather was great..." ...