Reviews"It will stick to your hands until you've finished, and stick to your mind long afterward." -Dale McGowan, author,Parenting Beyond Belief, "It will stick to your hands until you've finished, and stick to your mind long afterward." --Dale McGowan, author, "Parenting Beyond Belief", "An oddly mythic, frequently hilarious, ultimately uplifting odyssey of two people in a 1969 VW Beetle crossing the nation to a place they once called home." -Bookviews.com, "About an hour after I finished readingOld Bug, I was talking to my boss, at a wedding reception, about work issues. He told me to make sure that I take the time to enjoy the journey because that is what life is about. I told him that I knew of the perfect book for him to read." -reuters.com
SynopsisHaving barely seen each other in three decades, two friends impulsively decide to take a cross-country road trip. For one, the trip is a chance to take a few swats at a question that buzzes like an old bug in his post-religious soul, "What do I believe? Not just about God, but about morality, mortality, meaning, and the whole so-called spiritual side of life?" For the other, the journey is the culmination of a lifelong struggle to confront a buried demon and reunite with a family from whom he's been estranged for his entire adult life. What begins as a mundane drive becomes a quest for what really matters; a soul searching, thought provoking, oddly mythic, often hilarious, always human odyssey, as these two very different people join forces to keep a '69 Volkswagen Beetle alive long enough to reach the distant shores of home., Having barely seen each other in three decades, two friends impulsively decide to take a cross-country road trip. For one, the trip is a chance to take a few swats at a question that buzzes like an old bug in his post-religious soul,What do I believe? Not just about God, but about morality, mortality, meaning, and the whole so-called spiritual side of life?For the other, the journey is the culmination of a lifelong struggle to confront a buried demon and reunite with a family from whom he's been estranged for his entire adult life. What begins as a mundane drive becomes a quest for what really matters; a soul-searching, thought-provoking, oddly mythic, often hilarious, always human odyssey, as these two very different people join forces to keep a '69 Volkswagen Beetle alive long enough to reach the distant shores of home., The spiritual quest of a skeptical guy on a road trip across America with a long-lost friend in a beat-up Beetle.