Truckin' with Sam : a father and son, the Mick and the Dyl, rockin' and rollin', on the road /
Truckin' with Sam :: a father and son, the Mick and the Dyl, rockin' and rollin', on the road /

A father and son travel across North America in a pick-up truck-talking, laughing, fighting, and bonding. After years of thinking he'd never have kids, Lee Gutkind became a father at forty-seven and, following his divorce, soon found himself taking over more and more of the primary care respons...

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1. Verfasser: Gutkind, Lee
Weitere Verfasser: Gutkind, Sam
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Albany, N.Y. : Excelsior Editions, State University of New York Press, ©2010.
Schriftenreihe:Excelsior editions.
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Gutkind, Lee > Travel > Alaska Highway.
Gutkind, Sam > Travel > Alaska Highway.
Gutkind, Sam
Gutkind, Lee
Fathers and sons > Alaska Highway.
Fathers and sons > United States > Biography.
Pickup trucks > Alaska Highway.
Pères et fils > Route de l'Alaska.
Pères et fils > États-Unis > Biographies.
Pick-up (Camionnettes) > Route de l'Alaska.
TRAVEL > Canada > General.
Fathers and sons
Pickup trucks
Travel
Alaska Highway > Description and travel.
Alaska > Description and travel.
British Columbia > Description and travel.
Yukon > Description and travel.
Route de l'Alaska > Descriptions et voyages.
Alaska > Descriptions et voyages.
Colombie-Britannique > Descriptions et voyages.
Yukon > Descriptions et voyages.
Alaska
British Columbia
North America > Alaska Highway
United States
Yukon
Biographies
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Zusammenfassung:A father and son travel across North America in a pick-up truck-talking, laughing, fighting, and bonding. After years of thinking he'd never have kids, Lee Gutkind became a father at forty-seven and, following his divorce, soon found himself taking over more and more of the primary care responsibilities for his son, Sam. As one of a growing number of "old new dads" (recent studies have shown that one in ten children are born to fathers over forty), Gutkind realized that he faced challenges-both mental and physical-not faced by younger dads, not the least of which was how to bond with a son who was so much younger than himself. For the past five years, Gutkind's approach to this challenge has been to spend several weeks of every summer "truckin'" with Sam, a term they define as a metaphor for spontaneity, a lack of restriction: "Truckin' means that you can what you want to do sometimes; you don't always need to do what's expected." What began as long, cross-country journeys in a pick-up truck, including one memorable trip up the Alaska-Canadian Highway en route to a writer's conference in Homer, Alaska, have in more recent years ranged farther afield, to Europe, Australia, and Tibet. Whether listening to rock and roll music, entertaining themselves with their secret jokes and code words, fishing for halibut, or fighting over tuna fish sandwiches and how best to butter one's toast, Lee and Sam have learned to respect one another. In the process of their travels and their adventures, Lee has also come to grips with the downside of middle age and the embarrassment of "senior moments," while Sam has inevitably begun to assert himself and shape his own life. Interspersed with Sam's own observations and journal entries, Truckin' with Sam is an honest, moving, and often hilarious account of one father's determination to bond with his son, a spontaneous travelogue that will appeal to old dads, new dads, and women who want to know more about how dads (and sons) think and behave.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvi, 185 pages) : illustrations
ISBN:9781438432618
1438432615

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