"Back in the day, there was a company called Drive-A-Way. They'd give you a car that someone wanted to be driven across the country, and you just had to pay for the gas. So my friend Doug and I found a fuel-efficient VW bus in Bellingham, Washington, and headed east."
"It's rather temperate when we leave, but as night falls, we realize there's no heater in the car; and that there's such a thing as wind chill in an unheated vehicle which has its engine in the rear."
"We had to drive non-stop because we had no money to stay or sleep anywhere. So I was driving inside a sleeping bag. I had a sleeping bag all the way up to my shoulders, and I was operating the pedals through the bottom of the s...