From the author of "Blue Like Jazz" comes a road-trip memoir
about three months spent crossing the country in a Volkswagen
camping van, wondering out-loud if there is more to life than
nine-to-five jobs, than the ruts the entire world seems to be stuck
in. Follow Don and Paul as they dive headlong into the deepest of
human questions and find answers outside words―answers that have to
be experienced to be believed.
Day 1: "Trips like ours are greener grass left unknown for fear
of believing trite sayings; sayings that are sometimes true. But
our friends back home live an existence under the weight and
awareness of times; a place we are slowly escaping; a world growing
fainter by the hour and the mile."
Day 13: "It feels again that we are leaving who we were, moving
on into the people we will become, hopefully, people with some kind
of answers, some kind of thing to believe tht makes sense of
beauty, of romance. Something that would explain the red glow
against Paul's face, the red glow that seems to be coming off the
console . . . 'Did you notice the engine light is lit, bud?' I ask
. . ."
Day 83: "I sit in the van, waiting for her to come out when I
notice a window in one of the classrooms open, and a backpack comes
falling out, spilling a few books onto the lawn. After the backpack
comes Elida, falling atop the pack and laying low, peeking back
into the window to see if the teacher noticed. She gathers her
books, reaches into the classroom and closes the window, then runs
toward the van as though this were a prison break."
As you read "Through Painted Deserts, "you'll soon realize this
is not just one man's account of finding light, God, and beauty on
the open road. Rather, this book maps the journey you're already
traveling . . . or soon will be.
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