About this Event
An Afternoon with Woodrow “Pack” Landfair
Get ready to dive into the world of Woodrow "Pack" Landfair at Books-A-Million in Foley on November 7th! Pack will be in store starting at 1:00 pm to sign copies of his newest memoir, Road Journals. Whether you've always dreamt about driving cross-country, or have taken the road less travelled, you won't want to miss this event on November 7th!
Road Journals is a raw, lyrical memoir of one man's 48-state odyssey across America-alone on a motorcycle, armed with nothing but a backpack, a dream, and the will to trust strangers. After leaving behind a championship baseball career at the University of Texas, Woodrow "Pack" Landfair pawned his national title ring to fuel a cross-country journey that would become fifty-seven weeks of backroads, roadside diners, and blue-collar work in every corner of the country.
From Montana wheat fields to New Orleans kitchens, from desert truck stops to hidden mountain towns, Road Journals documents the real and often unseen America-its kindness, poverty, grit, humor, and heartbreak-captured through the eyes of a traveler determined to live by story rather than script. What begins as a road trip becomes a pilgrimage of identity: questioning success, chasing freedom, losing everything, and discovering unexpected belonging among everyday heroes-waitresses, mechanics, fishermen, drifters, hobos, and preachers.
Told through sharply drawn vignettes, journal fragments, and fireside recollections, Road Journals is not a tale of highways, but of humanity. It is a memoir for readers of Kerouac, Bryson, and Cheryl Strayed-for anyone who has ever wondered what might happen if they truly followed the road all the way to themselves.
A testament to risk, faith, and reinvention, Road Journals is both a travel narrative and a spiritual dispatch from the edge of the American Dream. It asks one timeless question:
What do we find when we finally go far enough to be nowhere-except honest?
Event venue & nearby stays
Books-A-Million, 2524 South McKenzie Street, Foley, United States
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