To Each Their Own Goodbye Series

Luc Barbon, upon discharge from the army, was on autopilot heading to the Ozarks. His plan was to bury himself in an educational foxhole, insulated from the insanity of the Vietnam War and national angst. Somewhere he could rewrite his story. He is on a mission to leave a past of self-doubt and fear of commitment behind only to find himself in an enclave of passion and prejudice. Love and learning dissolve in an unforeseen twist of fate. After an inhospitable stopover in an Arkansas prison, the Greyhound Bus terminal in Dallas, Texas is as far as money and time will take him. His off trail diversion into sex, drugs, and rock & roll were just a few of the obstacles he encounters in pursuit of his goal, until fate once again writes the next chapter.

Luc Barbon felt like he was escaping from the reality of 1968. Retreating from his own dead-ends in the Ozarks and Dallas, and about to bury himself in another foxhole in East Texas. A place where the world evolved around a Dairy Queen. It just might be, he speculated, a safe spot to be for a while. What trouble could he possibly get into hidden among the Magnolias in the Black-Eyed Pea Capital of the World. What lay ahead was a blank slate. He wondered if this was going to be the way it is, always going somewhere, always leaving nowhere behind. He would soon discover he was like tumbleweed on a mission, his roots were shallow, and easily uprooted with the winds of change.

When somewhere is never enough as far away as yesterday collides with the inevitability of life on the road. On an elusive mission to find his passion, the journey across Texas from dawn to dusk is a roller coaster ride with twists, turns, and crossovers on an unpredictable track. Luc Barbon enters a world where everything he believes in, even love,  has an alternative reality. Every time he reaches the top of the incline the devil of addiction takes over until he hits the bottom of the incline. "They made love that evening as if they were ending a chapter in their lives, a chapter where the tumbleweed, once uprooted, can never return to that moment in time."