Highway Sailor: A Rollicking American Journey

When the woman Jake Massry lives with leaves him for another man because he can’t succeed as a writer, and his Old World father, on his deathbed, orders him to get a real job, Jake, to get his head straight, hits the highways of America in his worn-out VW bus Old Bones in search of himself and his country. It’s Spring 1974–prices are spiraling upward and President Nixon is embroiled in the Watergate fiasco. As he travels from place to place in Old Bones (or rather pushes him), Jake meets a colorful cast of characters of sexy women, gays, born-again Christians, philosophers, racists, bullies and Gary Morse, a 19-year-old hitchhiker who possesses a large red ruby given to him by a young heiress.