In April 2005, Matthew Stevenson?author of the acclaimed ?Letters of Transit? and ?Mentioned in Dispatches?, both collections of travel essays?flew from his adopted home in Switzerland to his native United states and set out on a cross-country journey by car. Written in the accessible style of a long letter home, this book combines the narratives if travel, memoir, sports and history, which blend together in Stevenson's wry sense of observation.