{"product_id":"2940150880238","title":"Ameritrekking and Highpointing: Discovering America the Beautiful","description":"A great country and a great road trip.  Great parks and great mountains.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the true story about the first 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 first trip of nineteen days, the journey was over eight thousand miles long and it and took him through twenty-three states.  This is Ameritrekking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong the way he hiked to his first 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are dozens of color pictures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost of the trip was spent in these states:\u003cbr\u003e        Arizona\u003cbr\u003e        Idaho\u003cbr\u003e        Montana\u003cbr\u003e        South Dakota\u003cbr\u003e        Texas\u003cbr\u003e        Wyoming\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to highpoints, the author visited several parks and areas of interest:\u003cbr\u003e        Craters of the Moon National Monument\u003cbr\u003e        Crazy Horse Memorial\u003cbr\u003e        Custer State Park\u003cbr\u003e        Devils Tower National Monument\u003cbr\u003e        Glacier National Park\u003cbr\u003e        Grand Canyon National Park\u003cbr\u003e        Guadalupe Mountains National Park\u003cbr\u003e        Hells Canyon\u003cbr\u003e        Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument\u003cbr\u003e        Meteor Crater (Barringer)\u003cbr\u003e        Mount Rushmore National Memorial\u003cbr\u003e        Nez Perce National Historical Park (White Bird Battlefield)\u003cbr\u003e        Saguaro National Park\u003cbr\u003e        Salmon River (The River of No Return)\u003cbr\u003e        Tombstone (O.K. Corral)\u003cbr\u003e        Wounded Knee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscovering America the Beautiful is the first book in Joseph Whelan's Ameritrekking and Highpointing series.  If you like the travel writing of Bill Bryson, Ian Frazier, Peter Jenkins, William Least Heat-Moon, and Edwin Way Teale, you owe it to yourself to check out Discovering America  the Beautiful.  Expand your horizons and buy this adventure-packed tale today!","brand":"Joseph Whelan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157192818928,"sku":"2940150880238","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150880238_p0.jpg?v=1763754870","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150880238","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}