Reviews for Lunch at Toad River: Moving to Alaska

The average rating for Lunch at Toad River: Moving to Alaska based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-04-03 00:00:00 John Andrew Sally Lesh's book about all the houses she's ever lived in prompted me to order this short, charming tale of the summer that she & her husband & their eight children traveled & camped in a school bus on their way from Falmouth, MA to Alaska to live. No one could do that without a sense of humor and Sally's is evident throughout. One of my favorite scenes is her description of "small talk" on the long daily bus rides as her husband Jack attempts to gives historical information to the children and receives responses that vary from "Mommy, my scab is coming off!" to "If I write a letter to Billy and send it tonight from whatever town we come to and if it goes out tomorrow and if he answers it twwo days after he gets it, do you think we would get it Dawson City when we get our other mail??"

Review # 2 was written on 2014-08-17 00:00:00 DARREN BUTZELAAR Great fun! This memoir by a member of the "local aristocracy" in Gustavus, Alaska (population 350) is a wonderful read. In the early 1960's, she and her husband - along with the eight children - left their home in Falmouth, MA in a converted school bus, driving across Canada to move to Alaska. The author is so funny, and the stories are even better. I can't imagine people actually doing what they did - but it's true! (We met her granddaughter at dinner last summer, when we ate at the Gustavus Inn ...) Alaska is clearly not that far from being "frontier," as evidenced by their experience. Reading it made me homesick for our drive north:-)