12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time: A Family Tale
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glade1
of McLeansville, North Carolina USA on 10/29/2012
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glade1 of McLeansville, North Carolina USA on 10/29/2012 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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Picked up for a dollar at the used book store today. From Amazon:
At the end of the previous millennium, noted journalist Mark Jacobson and his wife, Nancy, decided they couldn't take another moment of watching their three children get any stupider. They decided that Rae (sixteen), Rosalie (twelve), and Billy (nine) had become prisoners of the idiot culture, which seemed a terrible waste of perfectly fine DNA. There was only one recourse: to declare war. To get away, far away. To go around the world. 12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time is the story of this three-month trip, a trek through Thailand, Cambodia, Nepal, India, Jordan, Israel, France, and England. The itinerary was planned around places that have stood the test of time -- the Angkor Wat, Durbar Square in Kathmandu, the ancient Hindu city of Varanasi, Petra in Jordan, the Pyramids at Giza, the Holy City of Jerusalem. The concept: to contrast these immortal works of man with the crap on TV. But it is also a wider journey, stretching across generations, an expedition into the minds of five family members as they make their way through a succession of cramped cars, seventeen-hour train rides, seemingly endless walks through teeming metropolises -- and one more bowl of curry.
At the end of the previous millennium, noted journalist Mark Jacobson and his wife, Nancy, decided they couldn't take another moment of watching their three children get any stupider. They decided that Rae (sixteen), Rosalie (twelve), and Billy (nine) had become prisoners of the idiot culture, which seemed a terrible waste of perfectly fine DNA. There was only one recourse: to declare war. To get away, far away. To go around the world. 12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time is the story of this three-month trip, a trek through Thailand, Cambodia, Nepal, India, Jordan, Israel, France, and England. The itinerary was planned around places that have stood the test of time -- the Angkor Wat, Durbar Square in Kathmandu, the ancient Hindu city of Varanasi, Petra in Jordan, the Pyramids at Giza, the Holy City of Jerusalem. The concept: to contrast these immortal works of man with the crap on TV. But it is also a wider journey, stretching across generations, an expedition into the minds of five family members as they make their way through a succession of cramped cars, seventeen-hour train rides, seemingly endless walks through teeming metropolises -- and one more bowl of curry.
This book was not really what I expected, and a bit of a disappointment. It seemed just a jumble of thoughts, mostly. There is some travel in it, but also a lot of reminiscing and rambling. The oldest daughter has three or four chapters, which add very little to the content. And the idea of the book, that the children are too plugged in and need to see the world, is not really fleshed out much. We don't really see them that plugged in, and they are already pretty extensive U.S. travelers, so it's not like they're all that sheltered.
My children are way more plugged in and have barely been out of the state of NC, but unfortunately, I don't have the money to drag them all over the world, so I guess I'll just have to worry. And some of the places they visited! I guess good old dad was trying to open their eyes but these are not places I would have chosen. I really think the main point of the trip was to give mom and dad a chance to redo their early, hippy years.
My children are way more plugged in and have barely been out of the state of NC, but unfortunately, I don't have the money to drag them all over the world, so I guess I'll just have to worry. And some of the places they visited! I guess good old dad was trying to open their eyes but these are not places I would have chosen. I really think the main point of the trip was to give mom and dad a chance to redo their early, hippy years.
Journal Entry 3 by glade1 at Cone Health Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, North Carolina USA on Monday, August 28, 2017
glade1 at Cone Health Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, North Carolina USA on Monday, August 28, 2017
Released 6 yrs ago (8/28/2017 UTC) at Cone Health Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, North Carolina USA
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