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The Grand Tour Redux
Passages: Cycle Tales of American Tourists in Europe
A Journey Through Time and Fiction
Earlier this year, my friend Dan asked over beers, “Are you still polishing those old turds?”
He meant my stories for Overland to the World, a collection I started when my first daughter, Katherine, was a newborn. She is now 26 and presenting her thesis for her PhD in aerospace about recycling space junk.
Yeah, she’s a Space Jawa.
She has grown. Matured. Sarah, too. In grad school at U of Maryland.
But have I? And has my protagonist, Geoffrey Snow, my alter ego — British, tall, debonaire, witty, egocentric, kind, handsome, and insufferable.
He’s from the North of England, where I had attended University in a study abroad program. This lifetime ago still holds strong in my life.
When I first started writing, it was just the beginning of the Internet. No cell phone. No apps. Calling the States was complicated. No Google maps.
Passages is my episodic cycle-story collection about an American church group, not all dye in the wool believers, traveling through Europe with our Man of All Occasions, Geoffrey Snow.
