Detailing her family's five-year adventure in the American Rockies--from evocative descriptions of the landscape her reflections on marriage, family, and children--Ross tells how in 1993 she, her husband, and their two toddlers set out on the 3,100-mile Continental Divide footpath running from Canada to Mexico. Illustrations.
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Detailing her family's five-year adventure in the American Rockies--from evocative descriptions of the landscape her reflections on marriage, family, and children--Ross tells how in 1993 she, her husband, and their two toddlers set out on the 3,100-mile Continental Divide footpath running from Canada to Mexico. Illustrations.
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Fair. This item is in overall acceptable condition. Covers are intact but may have heavy wear including creases, bends, edge wear, curled corners or minor tears as well as stickers or sticker-residue. Pages are intact but may have minor curls, bends or moderate to considerable highlighting/ writing. Binding is intact; however, spine may have heavy wear. A well-read copy overall. Please note that all items are donated goods and are in used condition. Orders shipped Monday through Friday! Your purchase helps put people to work and learn life skills to reach their full potential. Orders shipped Monday through Friday. Your purchase helps put people to work and learn life skills to reach their full potential. Thank you!
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Good and bad. The good thing about this book is that it opened my eyes to the experience of hiking with pack animals, i.e., llamas. The bad thing about this book is that Ross (as it struck me, at least) whined repeatedly about problems she chose to cause. A large part of the experience revolved around (poor?) parenting and inter-personal skills. This got very tiring to me. However, I'll give credit that the family stuck together and made it through several years of self-inflicted misery traversing the Continental Divide Trail. The good parts must have really been grand. Perhaps the book should have been more about them? Not for me to say. That's for the author to decide. Her choice left me feeling "down" at least as much as it did "up." So, a mixed bag, but still I'm glad I read the book and perhaps will grow to appreciate its style as the miles go by. I say congrats to her for really baring her soul.
