The Spaces Between: My Memoir Trilogy
Fifty Years. Three Books. One Man's Journey From Perpetual Motion To Reluctant Stillness
A 50-year memoir spanning 1973 to 2023 chronicles one man's journey from compulsive wanderer to reluctant settler—from hitchhiking across America during the last wild summer of the 1970s to finding hard-won wisdom in learning to stay put. This three-book memoir series explores the evolution from thumb-out freedom to the inevitable truth that you can't outrun what travels in your bones.
What if everything you've been taught about freedom was wrong? What if the answer isn't in the leaving but in the staying? What if paradise isn't a place you find but what remains after everything else fails?"
Book One: "Surfing The Interstates"
Published 1 August 2025
Summer 1973. A 21-year-old French aristocrat's son steals $80 and hitchhikes 4,000 miles across Nixon's crumbling America. Jerry Garcia blesses his guitar. UFOs read the Pacific's memory. A paranoid friend dies by cop. In a Big Bend canyon, fasting and alone, he receives a vision of water and a woman who moves with the wind. The road teaches him he needs the ocean.
Book Two: "Sahara Dust"
Currently being written
1982-1987, Antigua, West Indies. Building a sandcastle dream on a massive pristine beach with Thea, the woman from the prophecy. The woman born with cystic fibrosis who ignored her life expectancy, choosing to instead live “zestfully”. Paradise manifests—turquoise water, perfect wind, teaching tourists to fly. Success, international fame. Suddenly a small plane drops out of the sky before their eyes, 50 yards off the beach, hitting the water like a meteor, killing six young men instantly. Record Sahara dust storms arrive soon after. Thea’s battered lungs start failing. She dies at 37 in a NYC hospital surrounded by loved ones. Sandcastles and ashes return to the ocean, gently sprinkled from a schooner off Pemaquid Lighthouse in Maine. Hearts try to process the infinity of the loss.
Book Three: "Green Mountain Flash"
To be written after completion of book two
Vermont, 1997- 2023. Buio, his one year old golden retriever, attracts Veronica’s attention on the dirt road in front of his house. Together, they build a photography business—a self-directed and creative life. After the 2008 financial crisis they are forced into retirement. But the wanderer's ghost won't rest. 2019 he spends everything he has left on an overlanding rig that never leaves the county. Nine seizures at 4 AM over 12 months force the stillness he could never choose. The body succeeds where the will failed. Freedom ultimately means learning to live within your limits.
This Isn't Just A Memoir—It's American Mythology In The Making
From the servant's quarters of a Westchester estate to Big Sur's rainbow buses. From Caribbean trade winds to Vermont's brutal winters. From prep school damage to boarding school ghosts. From noble French bloodlines to picking Santa Rosa plums. This is the story of America's promise and betrayal, told through one man's body.
Every Paradise Contains Its Own Ending
Watch a man build and lose three different versions of heaven. Learn why the vibrant nightclub singer who gifted him the ability fly over water had to die. Understand why the dairy farmer’s daughter who had the heart to stay had to be different. Discover how nine electrical storms in the brain can be grace, not tragedy.
The Pattern Hidden In Plain Sight
Military jets violate every sacred space—F-4 Phantoms through Big Bend, A-6 Intruders over the Caribbean island of Vieques, F-35s above Vermont. The war follows him because the war is inside. Steve Ferry's paranoia wasn't paranoid. The kindness of strangers is real, but so is the cruelty of fate. Some wounds don't heal—they teach you to understand life differently.
Why Subscribe For The Full Journey?
Because this isn't just one man's story. It's about the last generation that could truly disappear, the first generation that couldn't. It's about what happened to the counterculture's children. It's about privilege that doesn't protect you, movement that doesn't free you, and love that arrives only after you stop running from it.
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Every month, new chapters. Behind-the-scenes audio narration. Original photos from all three eras. Conversations with the real people who survived it with him. Watch a book become a movement become a meditation on what it means to finally, after fifty years, come home.
For Everyone Who's Ever Wondered If They're Running To Something Or From Something
The answer is yes.
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