
Pat reached out to us in our final weeks on the road. The temperatures soared and we were looking for any respite we could find from the heat. Pat invited us out to camp at his place near the last stand of tall grass prairie in Kansas. But the real reason I wanted to go out and interview Pat: his writing. Pat has been working on a novel narrated by a VW bus—an imagined memoir of his VW bus. I have to say, the writing knocked me sideways. We interviewed him, had him read to us a little, and then he turned the tables on us (you’ll hear more of that in our series finale).


