Book Tour: 6,473 miles
The official tally is in. The total number of miles I drove this year to promote THE SECRET LIFE OF LOBSTERS was 6,473.
The lobstermobile.
(photo: Ash Corson)But since I drive a Honda Insight -- a gas-electric hybrid that gets nearly 60 mpg -- I did the whole tour on just over a hundred gallons of gas. If I had been driving a Ford Explorer , I would have needed triple that much gas (and money).
Where did I learn to be so frugal and eco-friendly? Well, partly from my father. I bought the Honda the year he died -- you can read that story in an oft-citedarticle I wrote for the New York Times.
But I also learned frugality from Warren Fernald on Little Cranberry Island -- if you've read THE SECRET LIFE OF LOBSTERS, you know Warren. Biggest tightwad I ever met. But that's how he could afford to catch lobsters sustainably for half a century. He didn't need to wipe out the lobster population. For him, the good life was only taking what you needed and saving the rest for your kids and their kids.
The lobstermobile.
(photo: Ash Corson)
Where did I learn to be so frugal and eco-friendly? Well, partly from my father. I bought the Honda the year he died -- you can read that story in an oft-cited
But I also learned frugality from Warren Fernald on Little Cranberry Island -- if you've read THE SECRET LIFE OF LOBSTERS, you know Warren. Biggest tightwad I ever met. But that's how he could afford to catch lobsters sustainably for half a century. He didn't need to wipe out the lobster population. For him, the good life was only taking what you needed and saving the rest for your kids and their kids.
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