Way Off the Road
?To say it very simply, freezer burn may very well have set in.? ?neighbor on the frozen dead guy kept on ice in a backyard shed in Nederland, Colorado. ?Everybody loves a parade; we were just geographically challenged.? ?David Harrenstein, organizer of a parade in tiny Whalan, Minnesota, where viewers are in motion and the ?marchers? stand still. ?We haven?t lost anyone off these switchbacks in at least ten days? ?Mailman Charlie Chamberlain, leading us on horseback 2, 500 feet down the sheer walls of the Grand Canyon. ?Ours are the finest cow chips in the world today, ? ?Kirk Fisher, enthusiast, in Beaver, Oklahoma, world cow-chip capital and cow- chip exporter. ?We live out in the middle of the corn and bean fields, and there?s not a whole lot to get excited about, you know?? ?Dan Moretz, on celebrating the day the sun sets in the middle of the railroad tracks in Hanlontown, Iowa.?It?s like drilling for oil; sometimes you come up dry.? ?Gay Balfour, who sucks problematic prairie dogs out of the ground with a sewer vacuum in Cortez, Colorado. ?All you have to do is beat the flies to it, ? ?Michael ?Roadkill? Coffman on the secrets of cooking with roadkill outside Lawrence, Kansas. ?I ain?t gonna brake ītil I see God!? ?driver named ?Red Dog, ? taking the track at a figure-eight school bus race in Bithlo, Florida. ?It?s a gift; you either got it or you don?t.? ?Lee Wheelis, world watermelon-seed-spitting champion, Luling, Texas. ?I am the mayor, the board, the secretary-treasurer, the librarian, the bartender ?that?s my most important title ?the cook, the floor sweeper, the police chief, and I have the books for the cemetery, if someone wants to buy a plot.? ?Elsie Eiler, the sole citizen of Monowi, Nebraska.Celebrated roving correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning and bestselling author Bill Geist serves up a rollicking look at some small-town Americans and their offbeat ways of life. ?In rural Kansas, I asked our motel desk clerk for the name of the best restaurant in the area. After mulling it over, he answered: ?I'd have to say the Texaco, 'cuz the Shell don't have no microwave.??Throughout his career, Bill Geist?s most popular stories have been about slightly odd but loveable individuals. Coming on the heels of his 5, 600-mile RV trip across our fair land is Way Off the Road, a hilarious and compelling mix of stories about the folks featured in