Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road Audiobook (Free)

From the writer of Blue Like Jazz comes a road-trip memoir about three a few months spent crossing the united states within a Volkswagen camping van, wondering out-loud if there is more alive than nine-to-five jobs, than the ruts the entire world appears to be stuck in. Follow Don and Paul as they dive headlong into the deepest of human being questions and discover answers outside words?answers that have to be experienced to become believed.

Time 1: ‘Vacations like ours are greener grass left unknown for concern with believing about Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road trite sayings; sayings that are occasionally accurate. But our friends back home live an presence under the weight and knowing of times; a place we are gradually escaping; a global growing fainter by the hour and the mile.’

Day time 13: ‘It all feels again that we are leaving who we were, moving on into the people we will become, hopefully, people with some type of answers, some kind of thing to believe tht makes sense of beauty, of romance. Something that would describe the red glow against Paul’s encounter, the red glow that seems to be coming off the console . ‘Did you notice the engine light can be lit, bud?’ I ask . . .’

Time 83: ‘We sit in the van, looking forward to her to turn out when I see a window in one of the classrooms open, and a backpack comes falling out in clumps, spilling a few books onto the yard. After the back pack comes Elida, falling atop the pack and laying low, peeking back into the window to see if the instructor noticed. She gathers her books, reaches into the class room and closes the screen, then operates toward the van as though this had been a jail break.’

As you read Through Painted Deserts, you’ll soon realize this is not just one man’s accounts of locating light, God, and beauty for the open street. Rather, this book maps the trip you’re already journeying . . . or soon will be.