Road fever Book

Two guys drive from Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in a 1-ton GMC Sierra pickup, 15,000 and some miles, in 23 days, 22 hours, and 43 minutes. One of them, Tim Cahill, puts you in the cab for the moments of seething tension, giggle fits, crushing despair, and blinding joy inherent in any long road trip, magnified logarithmically by this distance and speed, and the dizzying bureaucracy of getting the truck and the people through customs, immigration, and police checkpoints in (!) eleven Latin American countries. In fact, they came to feel they were not so much drivers as "documenteros," document bearers. This is good enough to read twice.