Chicken fried steak, green beans and warm blueberry pie went along with GUEST HOUSE truck stop readings which retraced Melba's route from Portland, Oregon to Salt Lake City, Utah—in reverse. I read my way from the Great Salt Lake desert to the high camas plains of Idaho, down the great Columbia Gorge. All at truck stops. All for love. 


Readings in late July included the tour kick-off in SLC on July 23, Boise on July 27, Troutdale on July 29. Thanks to all who came, and those who listened by accident. Truck stops need live entertainment. And truckers love to read. This I learned on tour. I drove 1,750 miles in my mother's Buick Century and gave out 54 CDs of chapter one to truckers, bikers and truck stop employees. My friends supported me the entire way.


Taking GUEST HOUSE to the people who made her. It's selfish really. I love home made pie.

First called Fury, then Midway, now Atomic City.

Population: 24

No churches, no school, no library, no rules, no Chamber of Commerce. Even the dump has closed. What better place for a boy to grow up?