Are We There Yet? A Modern American Family's Cross-Country Adventure

by William H., Jr Lohmann, Bill Lohmann

Release Date: 10 March, 2001

Edition: Paperback

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A great virtual journey

Wow! I didn't even know my computer could do that! Yes, I finally downloaded the e-version of your book and began playing around with it this afternoon. I hadn't realized that I could zip around your book through the internal links but also zip all over the country to learn about the sites you visited through external links. It's dizzying! But great fun.

-- Michael Lund, author of the Route 66 Novel Series, including "Growing Up on Route 66"

The Swiss Family Lohmann

This is a wonderful book. It's a travel book, of course, but it's also a family relations book, an adventure book and, above all, a humor book. Bill Lohmann, working for one of those rare newspapers that rewards a reporter with imagination, convinced his editors to send him, his wife and his three children on a seven-week motor trip to California and back. It must have been a rare treat for readers of the Richmond Times-Dispatch to read his dispatches every few days, wondering what disaster might befall before the next report reached print. A lot of families might not have survived a social experiment like this. Lohmann's trip put the family through plenty of trials, but insofar as onew can tell no blows were struck and no one was left behind. Indeed, as Lohmann put it, good luck always seemed to follow bad. The family camped out in Yellowstone, where Lohmann professed himself greatly in fear of bears, without any sort of encounter with the local fauna. But upon pitching their tent on a Florida beach, every critter in the neighborhood came to examine them. Lohmann is a graceful writer with a fine, self-deprecating sense of humor that infuses every page. By the time they get back to Richmond, you feel as though you know his children very well. Buy this book, and read it one chapter a day.