A great country and a great road trip. Great parks and great mountains.
This is the true story about the second in a series of road trips across America by Joseph Whelan, the author. Over the decades his travel time exceeded a year and the distance driven surpassed one hundred thousand miles. On this second trip of three weeks, the journey was over eight thousand miles long and it and took him through twenty-one states. This is Ameritrekking.
Along the way he drove and hiked to several highpoints. A highpoint is the highest natural geographic point in any particular state. Every highpoint is different: some are relatively easy to get to, some are not so easy, some are hard, and some are high mountains. This is highpointing.
A "thirteener" is a mountain at least 13,000 feet above sea level.
There are dozens of color pictures.
Most of the trip was spent in these states:
Florida
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
New Mexico
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Utah
Wisconsin
Wyoming
In addition to highpoints, the author visited several parks:
Black Mesa Nature Preserve
Bryce Canyon National Park
Capulin Volcano National Monument
Cedar Breaks National Monument
Clayton Lake State Park
Grand Teton National Park
Itasca State Park
Yellowstone National Park
Stalking the Wild Thirteeners is the second book in Joseph Whelan's Ameritrekking and Highpointing series. If you like the travel memoirs of Bill Bryson, Ian Frazier, Peter Jenkins, William Least Heat-Moon, and Edwin Way Teale, you owe it to yourself to check out Thirteeners. Expand your horizons and buy this adventure-packed tale today!
