Old Bug

"A great read that I just couldn't put down." -bookpleasures.com

"About an hour after I finished reading "Old 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
"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
Winner of the 2008 Benjamin Franklin Award for Best New Voice: Nonfiction

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 postreligious 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 1969 Volkswagen Beetle alive long enough to reach the distant shores of home.