Road Trip

About the Book

Most people celebrate their half century birthday surrounded by family and friends. Sam Chapman is unlike most people. He decides turning fifty deserves a special celebration, and embarks upon a road trip across America, one that reveals the many layers of Sam's inner soul.

With only a map in the glove box and some cash and a credit card in his wallet, Sam begins a journey that will forever change his life. Over the course of ten days, Sam drives from his home in Provincetown, Massachusetts to meet his best friend, who lives in Bishop, California. The three thousand mile road trip becomes an excursion filled with beautiful scenery, remarkable villages and towns and several interludes with nature.

Along the way, Sam meets a variety of characters and discovers parts of the country that are magical, mysterious, and redefine the meaning of natural beauty. Ten stops in as many days lead the way to Sam's half-century birthday celebration, and pave a new meaning of getting from Point A to Point B.

Road Trip will take you on a back seat adventure to undiscovered towns tucked throughout 14 states across America. Reading this novel will inspire readers to step back in time, when traveling was something to be enjoyed and savored, not merely endured.

About the Author

Bill Schneider is an accomplished freelance journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. His life journey has been filled with a three-decade long career in the music industry accompanied by extensive travel throughout four continents.

For many years Bill lived at the tip of Cape Cod on the Massachusetts coast, where he wrote along the same sand dunes that inspired Harry Kemp, Eugene O’Neill, Norman Mailer and Tennessee Williams. Bill received his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. and his Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Suffolk University in Boston, Mass.

He continues to enjoy traveling throughout the world. As a unique raconteur of love and human-interest stories, the characters Bill creates are filled with dazzle, yet they emote tremendous intrigue and depth.

Bill has published four novels under the ASJA Press banner of iUniverse. His debut novel, Second Chapter, was published in April 2005. A sequel, Sand Dollar, was released in July 2006. Crossed Paths was published in 2007 followed by Road Trip, which was released in 2008.