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I've just returned from a two-week road trip that took me to Florida for a niece's wedding, then to North Carolina to see family, next to Ohio to see a friend from graduate school, and finally back to St. Louis. During the trip I slept in a rest stop south of Macon, Georgia; at my brother's house in Melbourne, Florida; at a friend's house in Jacksonville, Florida; at my mother's in Wilmington, North Carolina; in a Kroger parking lot in Charleston, West Virgina; and another rest stop somewhere in Indiana. I drove along rivers, through mountains, along the coast, through southern low land, then back through foothills and mountains to the Mississippi.

During the trip I finished reading Dan Brown's Deception Point, which I liked much better than Digital Fortress. I've now read all of Brown's books. I'd rate them in this order, from best to worst, which might be the order in which Brown wrote them: Da Vinci Code, Deception Point, Angels and Demons, Digital Fortress.

Also along the way I started reading The Secret Life of Bees. A wonderful story, so far.