Date:         Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:30:40 -0500
Reply-To:     mcneely4@COX.NET
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: Old Popular Mechanics - Make Your Own Camper
Comments: To: Don Hundt <dhundt@bendbroadband.com>
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You are right, and my apologies to Both Moon and his fans for getting
his name wrong.  I'm officially old now (got my Medicare card in the
mail recently).

I own both of the books mentioned, as well as _Prairie Earth_, also by
Moon, and have read other of his works.  Moon is Osage, and has a
perspective derived from his boyhood in an Osage home, his marriage to a
fellow Native American (Cherokee), and a life in the world of academic
and letters.  Everything he has written is worth reading, and it's
mostly about the America that many of us love to travel.

Moon stealth camped across the country before the term was invented.

David McNeely


On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Don Hundt wrote:

> "Blue Highways" is a great book, the author's name is actually William
> Least-Heat Moon. He also wrote a wonderful book called "River Horse"
> about crossing the U.S. by boat, east to west.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Mcneely"
>
>> For a more practical approach to DIY van conversion, one could
>> consider
>> what author John Heat Moon did.  See his book _Blue Highways_.
>> Things