Readers and subjects alike praise Travels with Samantha
"You make me sound like a world-class caustic nympho bitch."
Jennifer M. (Boulder, Colorado)
"I'm a member of GOSA, the Geyser Observation and Study Association. I found that you seem to have investigated roughly five times as many attractive women as geysers while you were in Yellowstone. To each his own. If you hadn't seen Echinus at midnight, though, I would have been sure you were purely a poseur. Not one word about Grand, about Castle, the Lion Group, the difficulty of catching Beehive, the maniacally explosive madness that is Fan & Mortar, the isolated ocean of Artemisia...did you see nothing of any of these?
How can you say you saw America? If you saw as little of the rest of America as you have written about the geysers of Yellowstone, you saw nothing."
Mike O'Brien (Venice Beach, California)
It would be nice if modesty prevented me from mentioning that Travels with Samantha won a Best of the Web '94 award.
"What is a good argument, What might be called a good description, What is style? Unfortunately, I do not have an answer to these questions. However, sometimes I know for sure that something is neither a good argument, nor a good description and has definitely no style."
Dietmar J. (Freiburg, Germany) (commenting on
Berlin and Prague)