"Laugh and the world laughs with you." Well, sometimes. But you will laugh with the author as she recounts hilarious situations, mostly of her own but of others' making as well. Few of us have ever travelled cross-country with two dogs, a cat and a raccoon or lost a U-Haul trailer smack in the middle of railroad tracks, but many have fished with the same results that Ms. Brannon had over the years or camped in the rarified (and frigid) "higher elevations" of mountainous terrain in midsummer. Among those who have expressed heartfelt empathy with the author's "learning experiences" is famed...