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Date: 2023-01-06
As some of you already know, all of my diaries here are draft chapters for a number of books I am working on.
Some of these are now available:
The Electronic Nomad 2: Further Adventures Traveling the Country in a Converted Camper Van
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In May 2015, Lenny Flank locked the door of his St Petersburg FL apartment for the last time, climbed into his 2011 GMC Savana cargo van that had been fitted out with a homemade bed, sink, stove, and a solar panel for electricity, and set out to travel the country and live on the road. In the next seven years, he made his way from coast to coast, north in the summer and south in the winter. He visited over 100 cities in almost every state, logging enough miles to have traveled completely around the planet, several times. In 2017 he wrote a book about his travels, titled "The Electronic Nomad", which was part travelogue, documenting some of the interesting places he had seen and people he had met, and part guide, describing the basic equipment and methods that he used to live and work fulltime in the van while roaming about the country. This book, "The Electronic Nomad 2", is a continuation of those adventures. Illustrated.
A Year on Interstate I-75: Tales From a Roadtrip on America’s Major North-South Interstate Highway
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In May of 2015, Lenny Flank left his St Petersburg FL apartment, climbed into a campervan, and set out to live on the road. Over the next seven years, he toured most of the continental United States from coast to coast and from border to border. During this time, he journeyed the entire length of Interstate I-75, from Florida to Michigan and everywhere in between. This travelogue is a chronicle of that roadtrip. It reviews just some of the unusual and interesting places and attractions he was able to enjoy visiting, either on I-75 itself or on an easy day trip within a few hours of it, and describes some of their history—everything from national parks to historical sites to museums to odd little sites that only the locals know about. Among them are: Florida's Skunk Ape; a commune founded by a Hollow Earth cult; Florida's only Bison herd; Georgia's nuclear missile; Chattanooga's underground waterfall; Oak Ridge and the atomic bomb; America's Great Lakes aircraft carriers; the Toledo War; and Henry Ford's airplane factory. Interstate I-75 is a road of contrasts: from muggy wetlands to arid desert, from some of the most conservative states to some of the most liberal, from huge metropolitan districts to the most remote and empty wilderness regions of the country, through a wide variety of local cultures and diverse people. It is a slice of “America”. So join Lenny as he spends a year on Interstate I-75 and visits some of its most unique and interesting places. Illustrated.
The Nuclear Tourist: Visiting Historical Sites and Weapons from the Cold War
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For over four decades, the United States and the Soviet Union faced each other in a Cold War that threatened the entire world with nuclear annihilation. Today, the relics of that immense conflict still exist. Some of them are now forgotten ruins. Some of them are now in museums. Over the years, Lenny Flank has visited most of the available sites which commemorate America's Cold War nuclear history. This book is a chronicle of some of these nuclear displays and exhibits, and the history behind them. It is a cross-country tour that ranges from Florida to Washington, with stops in Arizona, New Mexico, Alabama, Ohio, Louisiana, Nevada, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Dakota, Connecticut, Kentucky, West Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, and Illinois, and covers the decades from the 1940s to the 1990s. Here, at sites that were once some of the most super-secret places on the planet, tourists can now wander around with cameras and cellphones, taking snapshots for social media of weapons and equipment that were once capable of ending all of human civilization in the space of a single afternoon. This is their story. Illustrated.
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