Good Evening Everybody: From Cripple Creek to Samarkand

Keep in mind Lowell Thomas was exploring the world when broadcasting and air travel were new. That's what makes this book so thrilling. He was a pioneer in these areas and describes what it was like in his day. Added to this step into the future, is his link with the past, i.e., when he was a boy the U.S. West was still being developed. So his era is a link between two particularly novel eras.In fact he begins with describing his relocation, as a youth to Colorado when it was being settled by those seeking wealth due to the gold rush. He gives details about the mining towns and the type of people who were drawn to them. "Dreamers and drifters" who usually didn't find their riches, but established cities like Denver.Thomas was an educated man. He attended college and even worked for a time on a campus before entering broadcasting. He describes how he got into the international travel experience and how it led to his becoming a reporter who told audiences in the U.K. and the U.S. of his adventures in places unfamiliar to them at the time. Quite honestly this book spurred my intensity to more travel myself. I'd like to see more places, experience more adventure, live more fully, and do in my generation what Thomas did in his. Fortunately for us, transportation is more affordable and available on a much wider basis now than then. Read this book! I think it will ignite your passion for life too.