Long TextExercise 27 of 74

My dad is a Yorkshireman, born in the 1950s, so not one to overstate things. He spent the first two days of our US road trip preoccupied more with the lack of baked beans than the views. I knew Utah had impressed, then, when he uttered one of the most flowery declarations I'd ever heard from him about a place, 'This…

• What impression is the writer trying to give about his father in the first paragraph?
• What does the writer mean by the use of the expression gone to seed in paragraph 4?