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12,000 Miles of Road Thoughts. Old Van, Old Man, Recovering Hippie, Dying Cat
12,000 Miles of Road Thoughts. Old Van, Old Man, Recovering Hippie, Dying Cat
12,000 Miles of Road Thoughts. Old Van, Old Man, Recovering Hippie, Dying Cat
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When an elderly Texan couple and their dying cat set out to have some fun by driving a vintage VW camper from Austin to Puget Sound, they find answers to questions they didn't know they were asking and are compelled to move to New York City. 

 

This travel narrative/memoir "is funny, sad, exuberant…. I am almost giddy with pleasure." Carolyn Osborn, author of Durations, A Memoir and Personal Essays.

 

"One thing a writer can do is create a life into which the reader can slip for just a while and think it would be pleasant to stay. That's what Willcott does." Award citation, National Association of Newspaper Columnists.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 25, 2022
ISBN9798201088699
12,000 Miles of Road Thoughts. Old Van, Old Man, Recovering Hippie, Dying Cat
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PAUL WILLCOTT

                       Paul Willcott is a lapsed Texan with four degrees from the University of Texas, including a Ph.D. in applied linguistics and a law degree. He is a veteran magazine writer, editor, publisher, award-winning newspaper columnist and blogger, and if publishing one poem qualifies, a poet. A print version of his novella, A Franklin Manor Christmas was published in 2007. It was performed as a radio play before a live audience at Pendragon Theatre in Saranac Lake, New York in 2008. Digital versions of A Franklin Manor Christmas and A Franklin Manor Epiphany (Book One and Book Two of the Annals of Franklin Manor series, will be published in Autumn, 2022. He has lived in Baghdad, Amman, Tehran, London, Hong Kong, Zurich, Washington, D.C., New York City, Saranac Lake, New York, and elsewhere. He and his wife Ann Laemmle spent from 1999 till 2017 renovating a former tuberculosis sanatorium/monastery in the Adirondack Mountains. For much of that time, it was a second home; from 2013-2017, their primary residence. They now live in New York City, where they feel more at home than anyplace they have lived.

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