![]() ![]() As you read Through Painted Deserts, you'll soon realize this is not just one man's account of finding light, God, and beauty on the open road. She gathers her books, reaches into the classroom and closes the window, then runs toward the van as though this were a prison break. After the backpack comes Elida, falling atop the pack and laying low, peeking back into the window to see if the teacher noticed. Day 83: I sit in the van, waiting for her to come out when I notice a window in one of the classrooms open, and a backpack comes falling out, spilling a few books onto the lawn. 'Did you notice the engine light is lit, bud?' I ask. Something that would explain the red glow against Paul's face, the red glow that seems to be coming off the console. Day 13: It feels again that we are leaving who we were, moving on into the people we will become, hopefully, people with some kind of answers, some kind of thing to believe tht makes sense of beauty, of romance. But our friends back home live an existence under the weight and awareness of times a place we are slowly escaping a world growing fainter by the hour and the mile. Day 1: Trips like ours are greener grass left unknown for fear of believing trite sayings sayings that are sometimes true. Follow Don and Paul as they dive headlong into the deepest of human questions and find answers outside words?answers that have to be experienced to be believed. ![]()
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