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After years of thinking he'd never have kids, Lee Gutkind became a father at forty-seven and, following his divorce, soon found himself taking over more and more of the primary care responsibilities for his son, Sam. As one of a growing number of'old new dads'(recent studies have shown that one in ten children are born to fathers over forty), Gutkind realized that he faced challenges—both mental and physical—not faced by younger dads, not the least of which was how to bond with a son who was so much younger than himself. For the past five years, Gutkind's approach to this challenge has been to spend several weeks of every summer'truckin''with Sam, a term they define as a metaphor for spontaneity, a lack of restriction:'Truckin'means that you can what you want to do sometimes; you don't always need to do what's expected.'What began as long, cross-country journeys in a pick-up truck, including one memorable trip up the Alaska-Canadian Highway en route to a writer's conference in Homer, Alaska, have in more recent years ranged farther afield, to Europe, Australia, and Tibet. Whether listening to rock and roll music, entertaining themselves with their secret jokes and code words, fishi

Author

Professor Lee Gutkind; Sam Gutkind

Publisher

Excelsior Editions, State University of New York Press; State University of New York Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781438432618

Subjects

Memoir, Travel, History