Grandma Gatewood is inspiring and such a character. I think the author did what he could with the material he had, but it felt like a recital of a journal that lacked many details and it had a repetitive feel of just listing off names of stops along the way. There was a missed opportunity to include photos of the newspaper headlines and of her journal entries. I wish it had been padded more with description and history like Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods.