Originally published in 1989.
Audio edition published in 1999 by Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio
Read by the author, Tom Bodett
Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Abridged
This is the first of Tom Bodett's excellent "End of the Road" series and it is a joy to meet the quirky people who live in this small town in Alaska.
It starts with the annual town parade and festival in the local quarry (it's easier to clean up a quarry, at least that's the theory), complete with fish tossing and a pistol shooting contest and ends up with a great story of two friends who travel from Alaska to Florida to pick up a brand new fire truck and then drive it back to Seattle to ship to Alaska by ship. It is the road trip of a lifetime.
Great quotes from the book:
"Men share some of their most intimate moments leaning against vehicles with their arms crossed, looking at anything but each other."
"I don't think there's a man in America who didn't spend at least a year of his young life sure that he'd grow up to be a fireman"
This audiobook can be found on Amazon.com here: The End of the Road.
I rate this audiobook 5 stars out of 5.
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