Hitting the Highways on a 48-State Odyssey

Announcing my latest book—48-State Odyssey!

What it’s About

My wife and I made a road trip touching the forty-eight contiguous states, and you can read the true story of that journey.

Well, most of it’s true. A good deal of it. Some of it.

I’m a fiction writer, so you’ve got to expect some exaggeration. Did we really encounter Bigfoot, Paul Bunyan, aliens, and various monsters and cryptids? Did we really receive a magical pet rattlesnake from Pecos Bill? Read the book and make your own judgment.

You’ll find it packed with fun illustrations. It also includes facts about each state that you got along fine without knowing. Written in a whimsical style, the book should suit readers of all ages.

If you’ve ever dreamed of driving through the country and touching forty-eight of the fifty states, I can recommend a good road atlas. If you’d rather just read about someone else’s adventure without driving anywhere, 48-State Odyssey might appeal to you. Or you could inflict it on someone else as a gift.

Where to Get it

For the time being, you can purchase 48-State Odyssey in ebook and paperback formats, but only at Lulu.com. I expect it to become available at other book distributors by mid-December. I’ll announce those availabilities here on this website.

Swerving Outside the Lane

Reading this, you’re thinking, “Hey, Poseidon’s Scribe, you couldn’t have written this book. You write science fiction, and some horror, much of it with a maritime setting. Who really wrote 48-State Odyssey?”

I did. I really did. True, it’s not in my usual genres. Sometimes a writer has to try something different. I’ll get back to my Seastead Chronicles series, I promise.

While you’re waiting for that, read 48-State Odyssey, a crazy, humorous travel book really written by—

Poseidon’s Scribe

48-State Odyssey

I just completed a road trip to all forty-eight contiguous states. First of all, my apologies for not visiting people I know in many of those states. The point of my trip wasn’t for visiting, but just to get through it in a reasonably short time.

During the trip, my wife and I drove 9898 miles in 21 travel days. We made the journey in two loops, a counter-clockwise western loop covering the states west of the Missouri River, and a clockwise eastern loop. That allowed us a break in between.  

Having just completed our tour last night, I’m still compiling statistics and organizing notes I took. I promise to write more about this trip when I can. For now, it must suffice to say I enjoyed the chance to ramble the roads of this country and touch the soil of each of our connected states.

Though not the first to make a journey like this, I’d guess only a tiny percentage of Americans have done it. People talk about the number of states they’ve been to, but that’s the result of many disconnected trips taken over years or decades.

Occasional traveling provides stimulation for writers, and my journey accomplished that. As I said, you may look forward to more about this forty-eight-state odyssey, as written by—

Poseidon’s Scribe

October 29, 2023Permalink