Trip to Colorado

Trip To A Songwriter€s Story is a novella based on a true story. It chronicles a Vietnam Vet€s disillusionment when he returns home from the service and his failure in adjusting to €œcoming home.€ In despair he decides to leave and visit an Air Force buddy who lives in a Denver suburb. A barroom experience sends him running from Denver to Montana, a place he had been stationed before going to Vietnam. Throughout his travels he experiences people that play unique roles in helping him find himself. He is drawn to poets and songwriters and eventually he achieves his dream of becoming one himself. Along the way he recalls military experiences, which help him to finally process all that he had been through. The protagonist rises from failure and hopelessness to find the will to go on with life and endure. It is clear that he needed to leave home to €œcome home.€