Home Is Where the Bus Is

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Summary: My Dog Gone Got Rickets!
Review: A really cool book and in these days of modern times I can think of no better way, other than flying one's flag 24 hours a day, to kick "Mister Osama Yo' Mama" right in his little be-turbaned rag-headed behind other than buying Ms. Johnson's bejeweled, glimmering memoir/slash/travelogue, plus its not as much as a downer as Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", at least there's no half-insane Kurtz waiting at the end of the bus trip, unless I smoked a bit too much hash and missed a coupla' chapters so far. There is only 2 great travel books about buses. There's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test", there's "Magical Mystery Tour" (I know, not really a book, well excuuuussee mmeee!) and now there's a 3rd! "Home is Where the Bus is!" You Go Girl! 5 Big stars!

Rating:
Summary: My Dog Gone Got Rickets!
Review: A really cool book and in these days of modern times I can think of no better way, other than flying one's flag 24 hours a day, to kick "Mister Osama Yo' Mama" right in his little be-turbaned rag-headed behind other than buying Ms. Johnson's bejeweled, glimmering memoir/slash/travelogue, plus its not as much as a downer as Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", at least there's no half-insane Kurtz waiting at the end of the bus trip, unless I smoked a bit too much hash and missed a coupla' chapters so far. There is only 2 great travel books about buses. There's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test", there's "Magical Mystery Tour" (I know, not really a book, well excuuuussee mmeee!) and now there's a 3rd! "Home is Where the Bus is!" You Go Girl! 5 Big stars!

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Summary: Packed with rich encounters with other cultures
Review: At the height of the Cold War Vernon Johnson decided to take a trip around the world - with his wife and eight children. Home Is Where The Bus Is is Anne's autobiography of that experience, packed with rich encounters with other cultures and a journey filled with adventures and unique experiences. Armchair travelers will delight in the stories.

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Summary: Home is where the bus is
Review: In 1960 during the height of the cold war Vernon Johnson packed wife & 8 children in a bus for 2 years to travel the world on a good will mission both to show his children that the people in countries of our "enemy" are human and loving and to show the world what Americans are like. Using his unique style of finagling they were the first foreigners in 40 years on the TransSiberian Railway. Anne speaks from the heart and soul about washing laundry in rivers, meeting Krushchev, fear of getting locked in Russia, and following a dreamer.
The writing is fluid, humorous, and real! A real gift of good will and political hope in these post-Sept 11th days.

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Summary: My Dog Gone Got Rickets!
Review: This book is wonderful. Remember that old Coke commercial - the one with people singing on the hillside "I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony...?" Remember when you first heard it and it felt possible and warm, not corny or ridiculous?
This book feels like a refrain from that jingle, like all we need to give peace a chance is to send out a family like the ten Johnsons on another goodwill bus tour...

The author should know that the only criticism possible is that the covers of her book are too close together!

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Summary: And to think, I used to be against busing!
Review: This book is wonderful. Remember that old Coke commercial - the one with people singing on the hillside "I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony...?" Remember when you first heard it and it felt possible and warm, not corny or ridiculous?
This book feels like a refrain from that jingle, like all we need to give peace a chance is to send out a family like the ten Johnsons on another goodwill bus tour...

The author should know that the only criticism possible is that the covers of her book are too close together!

Rating:
Summary: And to think, I used to be against busing!
Review: This book is wonderful. Remember that old Coke commercial - the one with people singing on the hillside "I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony...?" Remember when you first heard it and it felt possible and warm, not corny or ridiculous?
This book feels like a refrain from that jingle, like all we need to give peace a chance is to send out a family like the ten Johnsons on another goodwill bus tour...

The author should know that the only criticism possible is that the covers of her book are too close together!

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Summary: great family story
Review: This is a terrific story! It is touching, funny, and to think it really happened. Family values are the message in this people-to-people around the world saga which is never cloying but often bittersweet.