Describes how the author found redemption from a life of drugs, alcohol, fast cars, and women by taking a series of RV trips with his ailing, Vietnam veteran father and a chance encounter with his future wife.

Goodbye to all that -- John Howard Swofford -- Fairfield to Billings, the joker is out of breath, April 2009 -- Brother, to thy sad graveside am I come -- Letter from my father -- Bethesda -- Welcome to fabulous Las Vegas -- Freddy Business -- Genesis : an imagining -- Atlanta to Austin, dead Swoffords, August 2010 -- The girl from Tarawa Terrace II -- Fairfield to Aspen, getting the venom out, March 2011 -- Oh Josephine.