Five Ferries
Map of Europe of no dollars a day
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It’s 1978, but a kid from the suburbs believes a wandering adventure is still possible. Stephen Kylemore is done with college and expects to find a job and a wife and a dog. But in defiance of his father and at the cost of the woman he loves, he embarks on an odyssey, like in those in so many novels that fill his imagination. With little money and no real plan, Stephen buys a one-way ticket to Europe. He hitchhikes and sleeps in the woods, looks for work and paperback novels to trade, and tries to come to grips with the scars of the Vietnam War.
Scary moments and limited options force him to adapt to a foreign world, but instant friends, transient romance and kindness from strangers sustain him, until inevitably he must confront the tensions and the passion he left behind.