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"Are We There Yet?" Author to Speak at University of Richmond

January 31, 2002

Richmond Times-Dispatch feature writer and columnist Bill Lohmann will discuss his book "Are We There Yet? A Modern American Family's Cross-Counry Adventure" on Feb. 26 at the University of Richmond.

Lohmann's talk will be part of the Richmond Alumnae Book Club's 2001-02 speaker series. The program, including slides of the author's trip, will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Jepson Alumni Center.

The cost is $5. For reservations, call Linda Acors in the alumni affairs office at (804) 289-8030.

"Are We There Yet?" recounts the family vacation Lohmann, his wife and their three children took in a conversion van named Big Blue in the summer of 2000. The 10,000-mile odyssey, which covered 28 states and took seven weeks, was first chronicled in the Times-Dispatch.

The Lohmanns slept five to a tent while taking in the sights of America. They saw wallaroos (a type of kangaroo) in Washington state, shivered on the beautiful but icy beach at Newport, Ore., rode horses at the Western Pleasure Guest Ranch in Idaho and gawked at the stars in Yosemite National Park in the course of a vacation never to be forgotten.