Journey Thru America : My Quest For Peace

By Beer, Gary, L

Book Id: WPLBN0100003210
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Reproduction Date: 12/06/2010

Title:	Journey Thru America : My Quest For Peace
Author:	Beer, Gary, L
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Travel, Travel North America
Collections:	Authors Community, Travel
Historic Publication Date:	2010
Publisher:	Self-published

Member Page:	Gary L Beer
Citation APA MLA Chicago L Beer, B. G. (2010). Journey Thru America : My Quest For Peace. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Travelling the back roads across America in a seven month, eighteen thousand mile journey brought out survival instincts and a perception of life in Gary that we all possess and rarely experience in this modern world that we live. The result is clearly written in Journey Thru America, My Quest for Peace, in which Gary describes his incredible journey in such a way that the reader experiences the excitement and travelling as if they are experiencing it themselves. Gary speaks his mind of America and American people that is controversial at times and thought provoking.

Summary
To travel America had been a lifelong dream; I promised myself, that on completing university, I would pluck up the courage and GO! Being a forty-seven year-old man taking a degree in chemistry had been a challenge; and I was ready for another. A failed magical romance at university and broken heart gave me the final push.

Excerpt
My journey really begins in Virginia, in the ‘Bible Belt’ of America in September 2002 living with a witch of the Wicca cult called Tigerlilly. Tigerlilly had no appearance of being a witch, being blonde and dressing in middle class American clothes. Tigerlilly drove a new metallic silver coloured Dodge car and lived in a trailer on a large trailer park a few miles from the city. By all outward appearances all appeared normal from the outside of her trailer home; with flowers and shrubs surrounding the 60 foot long white trailer. Wooden steps led up to the front door where a large black and white plastic owl stood guard from the top of a railing post. The inside of the trailer also appeared to be middle class American; the lounge was nicely decorated in wheat coloured wallpaper with patterns of dried grass. Pictures of a bearded Jesus were on every wall, tending his flock of white sheep and generally looking holy. The trailer also had 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a kitchen diner and a room that was dedicated to the worship of her gods. Fierce upright blood coloured dragons about a foot tall stood upon large shiny black columns that flanked the door, guarding the room with its closed door. On entering the strange room a large painting of what appeared to be a merman painted directly upon the facing wall stared back at me with coal black eyes. Not the start I had dreamed of, or planned…..