{"product_id":"as-far-as-you-can-go-without-a-passport-views-from-the-end-of-the-road-9780201106732","title":"As Far as You Can Go Without a Passport: Views from the End of the Road","description":"\u003cb\u003eHomespun humor about the way we live, from the pleasant futility of salmon fishing and the joys of Halloween, to quiet afternoons with soap opera families and endless nights in pursuit of trivia\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTom Bodett, humorist, radio star, and pitchman for Motel 6, lives and writes in Homer, Alaska, the little town in the blue Northwest where America stops, carwise. \"If you got into your car in New York,\" he says, \"and wanted to take a nice long drive, I mean the \u003ci\u003elongest \u003c\/i\u003edrive you could without turning around or running into a foreign language, this is where you'd wind up.\" It's a place of moose and salmon and spectacular sunsets, but, Bodett insists, it's also small-town America, a place not all that different from the Michigan town of his youth. That's why he's made it his home: it perfectly suits his contrary appetites for the extreme and the everyday, for the rigors of the outdoor life and the mundane joys of the family circle. \u003ci\u003eAs Far As You Can Go Without a Passport, \u003c\/i\u003e Bodett's first collection of casual essays, contains pieces on everything from trapping, tree cutting, and halibut fishing, to soap operas, lost socks, and sleeping in. It's guaranteed to please both the renegade and the homebody in every reader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Da Capo Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/1986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780201106732\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.14w x 0.46d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/10\/1986\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tom Bodett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52732243214517,"sku":"9780201106732","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/as-far-as-you-can-go-without-a-passport-views-from-the-end-of-the-road-9780201106732","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}