Catching a Dream: A Bicycle Journey Across America

Catching a Dream is the story of John and Doris Jenkins' journey across America in 1985.Filled with nuggets of history, wisdom of the road and nature, poetic imaginings, spiritual musings, and chance encounters. John bicycled and Doris drove their Datsun camper. The traveled from Oregon to Virginia – 3,960 miles – by way of the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail.Follow the day-by-day journal of their journey in the slow lane, coast to coast.John Jenkins is a retired minister, gardener, beekeeper, artist, poet, writer, fly fisherman, reader, thinker, and author of "A Voice In the Wilderness", a book of inspirational essays. Beside his cross country bicycle trip, John has hiked the Grand Canyon many times. John and Doris have three children, seven grandchildren, and eleven great-grandchildren .John Lives in Camp Verde, Arizona continuing his journey without Doris, his wife of 60 years who passed in 2011, where he explores his love of nature, the mind, and the spirit.He is currently working on "Insights" and "Methodist Monk".