Prelude to a Groovy Road Trip

Vinnie van Go is a 1970 Volkswagen transporter (bus) that, in 2008, had new life breathed into him when he was adopted and renovated by writer and English professor G. J. Dürrschmidt, who holds a graduate degree in writing from the Johns Hopkins University. Vinnie was born (manufactured) in August 1969 in Bremen, Germany-the very same month of the Woodstock Music Festival in Bethel, New York. From the moment the sheet-metal seams of his body were welded together, he knew in his soul of souls that he had been infused with the spirit of the sixties. He remains to this day a love bus. Through the powers of magic and imagination, he recently discovered that he possessed the ability to write-specifically poetry. His poetry stems from his unique observations of people, places, and things and focuses primarily upon, well, what else-love.