A rejected, young-American teen desires to test his mettle by adventuring alone on a full summer's escapade to Europe traveling the entire countryside seeking whatever he may discover. His travels are filled with thrills, chills, wonder, humor, excitement, misadventures, loneliness, character tests, and multiple, decision-making challenges. Throughout the entire experience, our traveler learns a great deal about human conditions, kindnesses and much about his own feelings and attitudes toward humanity.It is a love-story about youth, adventure, traveling, temptations, and all the twists, turns, and challenges facing growing-up. Animal lovers may especially enjoy many of our traveler's escapades. There is much adventure, sight-seeing, history, humor, and misadventures to experience through the eyes and words of our author's summer's tale. It is his story of a wonderful place and time, There and Then: A Summer to Remember.