Road Sailors

Overview:

Identical twin brothers Trapp and Remy McFlynn have not seen each other in over seven years but they finally reunite when Trapp returns from working in Asia. They meet in Prince George, British Colombia, and set off on a cross-country adventure to find a writer’s cabin for the returning twin. Based on a true story, these twins rekindle their sense of mischief and party their way up to the Yukon and across the prairies, stopping at bars along the way, and meeting characters who are drawn to them as an anomaly: two tall men who are identical. But as the trip unfolds, Trapp begins to learn about how his brother has slid into a headspace that is worrying to him: he thinks he is the long-awaited Native American Messiah: the Pahana. Not sure it is a phase or if he really means, Trapp must be delicate in how he responds to his twin’s neuroses, careful not to provoke an angry response but at the same time try to find out the reasons for his fervent belief…

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Trapp McFlynn buys a pick-up truck and camper, the same as his brother’s, and they drive north to the 60th parallel because Remy believes they will be safe from satellites following him. When they arrive in northern Canada, they find a cast of characters, some crazy and some eccentric, and some obsessed with the twins. They encounter herds of wild buffalo in northern BC and strange taverns in the Yukon and the prairies, and eventually find themselves back home in Ontario where they discover a coincidence that changes Trapp’s life. This is a memorable and highly original road trip adventure that will remain long after the reader finishes. It is a strange, private world of twins, full of strange language and odd extreme behaviour. Always honest and never boring, this is a tale of long-lost brothers taking a road trip that takes them right across Canada and also to the boundaries of what it is to be an identical twin…

165 pages (84604 words)

Author’s note: This piece is a road-trip adventure of identical twins hell-bent on mischief and mayhem…

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