Road Club

Huge Street & Road Map of Lake Almanor Country Club, California CA - Printed poster size wall atlas
$19.99
For most small towns, this is the first time a printed street map has been available. The street map of Lake Almanor Country Club, California is a great gift for any collector of hometown maps & memorabilia. One will spend hours discovering their hometown with this wall map. The 18 inch map is suitable for framing. *NOTE* Actual map is much more crisp than images above. We are constantly updating our roads and town boundaries. Actual street map may vary slightly from samples above.

The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
$14.95
Ironically, I read this book the day after Thanksgiving. Can there by a bigger contrast between feasting and this book?

I read other reviews complaining that the author didn't establish a believable scenario for the end of the world and didn't give enough information about the precipitating cataclysm, but I had a similar reaction to reading this book as I did as an undergraduate student taking my first crack at Faulkner. I vividly remember struggling with the text of "As I Lay Dying," until I realized it was a kind of poetry. The Road struck me in much the same way. Yes, the idea of canned goods lasting 10 years and humans being the only living thing on the planet and being able to drink surface water with no ill effects are all pretty nutty, but this world is expertly woven into the gray reality this man and this boy share, and their search to survive is harrowing. That there is so little detail about the End of Everything was more frightening to me than detail would have been. I could have argued that things wouldn't really happen that way to make myself feel safe just as we look for reasons we wouldn't fall to the same fate when someone our age dies (he smoked, he was too fat, he didn't wear his seatbelt -- all ways to avoid facing the fact that the same thing could have just as easily happened to us). How to argue with a flash of light and some loud noises and then no power and then nothing ever again? To not know and have to go on would be incredibly hard, even without physical losses.

I thought the novel had a lot to say about value. Material objects and morality and how the exigency of the moment shapes them, and how they are lost. The bond between the man and the boy stays strong, but the man cannot live up to the values he has taught the boy. On one level the boy understands that the man has failed, but he knows the man's failure was shaped by his need to protect him. The boy is free to have faith in part because the man has succeeded in protecting him, and this is the man's ultimate success.

The ending of this book was one of the most powerful I've read. I found it and the book as a whole incredibily religious, not in the way of a Left Behind novel, but in the ultimate reasons we live with purpose while knowing we will one day die. This book will stay with me for a long time, making me think about the choices we make and the things we take for granted as we travel our own -- hopefully more pleasant -- roads.

Jazz Club: Jazz for the Road
$11.98

Lazy River Road [Club Front rehearsal, February 18, 1993]
$0.99