"The Lost Continent" by Bill Bryson

I really enjoy Bryson. I'm readying "At Home" now for the second time. This book just missed his usual tone. Instead of nuggets of interesting facts with a playful touch, "The Lost Continent" felt more concerted in it's attempt to humor instead of inform. It just didn't resonate with me. The book follows our author and protagonist as he embarks on a months long road trip through many of the continental United States. I shudder to think about saying that this book is dated because I don't precisely know if some of the southern mindsets have truly changed. Of course, we now live in an era of digital everything (maps, tripadvisor, prebooking hotels, etc) so that aspect doesn't translate as well but I am old enough to remember travel before all of these conveniences so that was a fun trip down memory road. I have not visited such a great number of the destination in this book and, if I may say so, based on the author's opinion of most of them, I'm not lacking for it. I do walk away from this book with an urgency to take in the enormity of the grand canyon. Perhaps Gettysburg as well. Other than that, I can skip a lot of the "highlights". As I mentioned, already involved with another Bryson and am enjoying the second reading of it immensely.