![]() As the year goes on and on, Kaufman gets more wary and cynical about people, and less interested in the acquisitiveness of birding. The book sounds like a birding book, but it’s really a lot more than that. He budgeted a dollar a day for food, and quickly learned that dog food could keep him going for a long ways. He was 16 when he dropped out of high school to pursue his birding dreams, and a couple of years later he hitchhiked his way around the continent, from Florida to Alaska, Maine to Baja California, amassing a total list of 671 species while spending less than $1000 for the entire year. ![]() The book is titled Kingbird Highway, and is about how the author, Kenn Kaufman, came to be the youngest person to see over 600 birds in a single year. Normally this would have sparked a program about how birds are so much more evolved than us mere humans, never bound by airport schedules and pilot strikes and radar systems, but I had just started a book that was so absorbing that the time flew, and by the time I was finishing the book the plane was in the sky. ![]() ![]() A couple of weeks ago I was stuck in the Cleveland airport when first my one o’clock flight got cancelled, putting me on a 5 o’clock one, and then, after we boarded that plane a half hour late, we waited out on the runway for over an hour and a half while the Cleveland radar system was down. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |