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(More customer reviews)The authors have an uncanny ability to find everything there is to do and experience in each place they travel to. They don't just stop and look, like typical tourists. They learn everything they can about the culture, geography, history, uniqueness of a place and experience it with all their senses. For example, at Death Valley: "We stopped to walk through the remains of a gold-mining operation...the silence was fascinating. It wasn't a 'deafening quiet,' where you're in a closed room and can hear your heartbeat, but a strange lack of sound and space and time." "Taking a step on the dry rocky ground made a crunching sound that might be heard by a coyote in those mountains." The Chinese laborers at the borax mines "who dug these mine shafts and built these adobe buildings in the 120 degree summer heat also had to boil the minerals extracted from the ground before loading the pure borax into the 20-mule team wagons for their 60-mile haul. Can you imagine that heat?" (p.141)
This book has added to my list of must-see places, and changed it into a list of must-experience places. The authors have become my personal travel guides.
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