Underwear by the Roadside: Litterwalk Coast-To-Coast (Paperback)

by Glen Hanket (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review
Glen and Sue Hanket left jobs, friends and family to embark on a Maine-to-Oregon walk across America. But not just any cross-country trek. They wanted to go on a "litter walk", to leave the roads they walked along a little cleaner for their having passed that way. In the course of their litter-removing American odyssey the discovered the "friendliest town in the country" where total strangers paid for their hotel and provided cross-state taxi services; a haunted health resort where ghostly patients reportedly party; faith healers, fishing dogs, and rusting dinosaurs; villages that time passed by, outposts with no streetlights and no strangers; disappearing customs from milking cows to making maple syrup; and litter that ranged from Bahamian coins to butterfly collections, table saws to television sets, and an unending stream of -- underwear! In Underwear by the Roadside the armchair traveler will join Glen and Sue as they discover the real America, one at odds with the grim picture painted by the evening news, as they travel the land from "sea to shining sea". -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: C A K Publishing (March 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965783308
• ISBN-13: 978-0965783309
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,997,308 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great,laugh, cry, cheer them on, moving, very discriptive, July 4, 1997

By A Customer

A wonderful moving book about a couples trek across our wonderful country. You share the joys and disappointments as they go along. Wonderfully discriptive word pictures of people and places. They also pick up lots of litter along the way. Writer shares the ups and the downs, it wasn't always a picnic, which adds to it's allure. It starts with "Caitlin" in Massachusetts giving Glen her "only" lucky gold coin, and ends with Caitlin and her coin. I've read lots of adventure books this rates right up there with the best. Pat Minshall

3.0 out of 5 stars Complain, Complain Walk Across America, May 10, 2009

By	CR "wondraone" (Pullman, WA) - See all my reviews

Get Real! He should have left his Albatross at home. No mention of REAL walkers: John Day or John Muir to name only two. Hanket does acknowledge the generosity of his fellow Americans but there seems to be an underpinning of "the country owes us" going on. I am not sure that I would take his advice on much of anything.
It has been a lot of years since this walk and not much has changed even if the media wants us to believe that it has. If one is contemplating a like journey, they should read and study more sources than this one.

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible book! A must-read!!, November 18, 1998

By A Customer

This is a refreshing book about a newlywed couple that walks across the country, picking up litter as they go. It describes the beautiful scenery they walk through, the wonderful people that they meet, and the hardships they face on their journey. I've had the opportunity to speak with Glen Hanket in person and had a nice visit with him. The book is a peek into the diary he kept on his journey.