One of five siblings, Wright and her family travelled Australia's amateur contest circuit almost non-stop, in a lumbering minibus driven by their plumber dad.
David Eisenhower, back from a trip to the post office, was pulling up to his front door in a lumbering, wood-paneled station wagon with a toddler's seat in back.
But in the present day, when every square mile of the earth's surface has been photographed by satellites, and scientists have identified 1.3 million species (with mostly plants, tiny animals and microbes remaining to be found), how could you still believe in a lumbering, seven-foot-tall ape, hiding out in one of the most well-studied countries on the planet?
And then in a lumbering bark, he sang "Shatter Their Bones": "Putrid foul zombies make their ghastly approach/A dreadful horrid feeling sets in".
Half a century later, the journalist Denizet-Lewis, a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, sets out in a lumbering motor home he calls "the Chalet" with his Labrador mix, Casey, on a four-month journey around the country.
Then came Vietnam and Cambodia, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan, with short pauses between events while the bomber people thought up new and better bombs with names like Fat Albert, Twinkletoes, Daisy Cutter and MOAB ("Mother of All Bombs," a device so big that it has to be toted to its target in a lumbering cargo plane).
