If you suffer from wanderlust, reading this book should cure it. A married couple set out on a 10,000-mile journey…and found monsters. That’s how the husband tells it, but he exaggerates. If Mark Twain and Dr. Seuss decided to go on a road trip together, this is the very book they’d stick behind their backs for lumbar support. After Pecos Bill gave the author and his wife a pet rattlesnake, the travelers encountered Bigfoot in Washington, got abducted by aliens in New Mexico, and faced a troop of escaped gorillas in Virginia. Each state delivered an adventure with local cryptids, legends, or myths. This unfortunate pair endured them all and survived to warn you. Every chapter answers questions you’ve long pondered. Where do they race outhouses? Where did they once parachute live beavers? Where do they toss dead fish at the neighboring state? Only Alaska and Hawaii got spared, and both sent the author many thanks. Half travelogue, half fantasy, and half comedy, this book may not add fractions well, but it’s packed with clever illustrations and suits readers of all ages. Once you’ve laughed your way through 48-State Odyssey, you might never travel again.