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	Biking the Blue Ridge Parkway One day into my 469-mile bicycle ride along the Blue Ridge Parkway with my seven-year-old great-granddaughter, Kaysie, she became terribly homesick and I had to drive her back to her mother. Not to be deterred, I returned to the Parkway and restarted my solo ride at mile zero. The scenery turned out to be as beautiful as I imagined: breathtaking mountain vistas, sparkling clear streams, abundant wildlife, sweet-smelling flowers and very little automobile traffic. Early one morning I biked for an hour and a half without meeting a single car or person. The flowers I encountered were fantastic. Huge bushes of flaming golden azaleas, 10-foot long clusters of purple rhododendrons, walls of white mountain laurel, white Japanese dogwood, blue forget-me-nots and dozens of little small yellow, purple and white flowers sprinkled in between. Once an hour I saw a deer eating leaves off a tree, a wild turkey scratching for seeds, a hawk circling the cliff edge or a bobcat chasing a rabbit. There didn't seem to be a single level stretch along the Parkway. Because of all the ups and downs, the total climb for the 469-mile ride is over 48,000 feet. From my 3,000-foot altitude vantagepoint, I could see unbroken forest both sides of the road for almost the entire length of the Parkway. On the tenth day I biked up to the highest point on the Parkway, 6053-foot altitude. The road ran downhill from there. Did I enjoy the trip? Absolutely! It turned out to be a fantastic adventure, but next time I'll arrange for a support van to carrying my gear. ISBN 1-880675-13-7 Price $22.00 Order by email

	Canoeing the Boundary Waters In 2007 Johnson took three of his granddaughters and his grandson up to the Boundary Water Canoeing Area in Northern Minnesota for a two-week canoeing-fishing-camping trip. They canoed and portaged two days from Ely Minnesota with two canoes and 700-pounds of food and supplies to a base camp on Alice Lake. They caught fish every day---Emily caught a three pound small-mouth bass, Paul caught a 27-inch long northern pike and Jessica and Kelsey each caught a dozen small-mouth bass. While canoeing around the lake looking for likely fishing spots they encountered great blue herons, bald eagles, river otter scurrying along the shore, deer, beaver, loons, red-headed ducks, coyotes (or wolves), squirrels and the camp clowns chipmunks. A variety of large, colorful butterflies posed for close-up photos. They even had the opportunity to watch an armored water bug molt into a dragonfly. After nine days in the north woods they headed back to civilization: first stop - Pizza Hut. The grandchildren said they enjoyed the fishing and camping. Johnson said he ended up with 450 photos and a million dollars worth of memories. ISBN 1-880675-12-9 Price$15.00 Order by email

	Skiing the Andes Allen took his 12-year-old twin granddaughters to Baraloche, the ski capital of Argentina where they slept in a remote mountain cabin 5,000-feet up in the snow-covered Andes Mountains. For two weeks, the three of them cross-country skied the powdery Andes trails, snowshoed the snowy heights and downhill skied at Mount Cathedral. While skiing or hiking through the Andes they encountered red fox, carancho eagles, condors, giant redheaded Magellanic woodpecker and bushy red squirrels. ISBN 1-880675-11-0 Price $15.00 Order by email

	Walking Hadrian’s Wall “This part of the Wall is 2,000-years old,” Allen told his wife and granddaughters as they stood by a section of Hadrian’s Wall in Newcastle, England. They had come to walk the 80-mile long wall that the Romans built in AD 120 to protect their settlements in England from the Barbarians in the north. The Wall had mostly disappeared at both ends, but periodically they encountered the actual remains of the 10-foot thick, 15-foot high limestone wall. For 10 days they followed the Wall up and down hills with steep, craggy cliffs and beside picturesque lakes filled with ducks and swans. At the end of the rugged walk, granddaughter Jessica exclaimed, “I’m so proud that I finished the whole walk. I’m going to have my shoes bronzed!” ISBN: 1-880675-09-9 Price $15.00 Order by email

	Willmore Horseback Adventure Nine-year-old twins, Emily and Jessica, rode horseback with their grandfather through the 1,700 square mile Willmore Wilderness Park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains of Alberta for two weeks. They encountered grizzly bears, black bears, elk, moose, caribou, mule deer, mountain goats and big-horn sheep as they explored the pristine valleys and snowy mountain passes of Willmore. ISBN: 1-880675-08-0 Price: $ 15.00 Order by email

	Kayaking around Iceland Eight-year-old twins, Emily and Jessica, kayaked the Arctic Ocean around Iceland with their grandfather and a friend. One day they encountered gale-force winds and two-foot high whitecaps that forced them onto an uninhabited island. They eventually made it back to shore just as their support party was calling for a search helicopter. The rest of the trip they enjoyed calm weather, sparkling waterfalls, colorful puffin birds and snow-covered mountains in the background. ISBN: 1-880675-07-2 Price: $ 15.00 Order by email

	Sweden through the Eyes of Six-Year-Olds Six-year-old twins, Emily and Jessica, biked 400 miles through the Swedish country side with their grandfather. They saw spectacular rural scenery, the sparkling Baltic Sea, deer, rabbits, hares, wild peacocks, eagles, Gotland ponies, butterflies and more red Swedish barns than they ever imagined. While riding for six to eight hours a day the twins maintained a positive, inquisitive attitude. ISBN: 1-880675-06-4 Price: $ 15.00 Order by email

	Genealogy of Johnson Family Including the Grants, Runges and McDonalds This is a 285-page collection of dates, people, places, photos and stories related to the family genealogy of the author. It covers the Johnsons, Grants, Runges and McDonalds from the 1700s to the 2001. The book is indexed with over 1,000 names. ISBN: 1-880675-05-6 Price: $ 20.00 Order by email

	Rollerblading across Holland Allen, his 11-year-old granddaughter, Kelsey, and a family friend, Karla, rollerbladed 400 miles across Holland with backpacks. They swam in the North Sea, toured picturesque windmills in Kinderdijk, visited the huge Delta Project that reclaimed land from the sea, slept in a monastery, explored a castle in Gent and spent two nights in a Dutch Home. After 17 days, the trio arrived back in Amsterdam with 700 photos and 1,000 happy memories. ISBN: 1-880675-04-8 Price: $ 15.00 Order by email

	Biking to the Arctic Circle Nineteen-year-old Paul and his grandfather biked 4,000 miles from Ohio to the Arctic Circle encountering wolves, bears, moose and 1,000 RVs. ISBN: 1-880675-03-X Price: $ 15.00 Order by email

	Australia From the Back of a Camel Seven-year-old Kelsey and her grandfather rode camels 140 miles across the Austalian Outback exploring Aborigines scared sites, ancient fossil beds, and desert flora and fauna. ISBN: 1-880675-02-1 Price: $ 16.95 Order by email

	Biking Across the Devil's Backbone Nine-year-old Tracy and her grandfather biked 600 miles across the Mid-West visiting historical sites, natural wonders and talking to interesting people. ISBN: 1-880675-01-3 Price: $ 15.95 Order by email

	Canoeing the Wabash Ten-year-old Paul and his grandfather canoed 500 miles down the Wabash River through swampy shallows, white-water rapids and tranquil stretches of tree-lined shore. ISBN: 1-880675-00-5 Price: $ 13.95 Order by email

	Drive Through Russia? Impossible! In 1981, the author and his wife drove 4,000 miles through the Communist Soviet Union by themselves. The trip was a 3-week odyssey through ancient country side and modern bureaucracy. ISBN: 0-533-06695-6 Price: $ 10.95 Order by email
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