Have you ever dreamed of quitting your job and taking off on a hitch hiking adventure into the great unknown? If you are young enough to still do it, read this book for inspiration! If you are already settled down and the days of hitch hiking dreams are long gone, read this book for endless vicarious pleasures of harrowing adventure, camaraderie, existential angst, love and lust, self discovery and even some real magic.
— Sam Baker
Description
A perspectival story about hitchhiking, train-hopping and friendship on the road. Four boys creating and deviating from their own hitchhiking codes, traveling from New England to Panama at the turn of the millennium. This book is "On the Road" meets "Stand By Me" meets "Down and Out in Paris and London" - with tones of Hemingway, Tom Robbins and Neil Young.
