Bemused
Dazzled, bewildered
Hyperbole
Amplification, overstatement
Barnstrorming
Made quick tour of some places as a part of campaign
Converging
Intersecting, linking
Riveting
Engrossing
Treacherous
Two faced, unreliable
Microcosm
Little world
Fleeting
Fugitive, vanishing
Eluded
Ducked, avoided