Bad Idea

Are we there yet?Griffin Smith is making his first interstate road trip, an adventurous rite of passage that will take him from his Midwestern home to his freshman year at college in Southern California. Yet this is no ordinary A to B trip, because Griffin will find his attitudes and ideas challenged by some surprising events and an unlikely band of travel companions: his best bud, who will test the limits of their friendship; his father, who will challenge his concept of manhood; his younger brother; and his father's trophy girlfriend, who may just be too young in general. Soon this journey begins to take random detours, as Griffin experiences a bittersweet reunion with his biological mother, confronts a terrible betrayal, and encounters one angry coyote. As the states blur by, Griffin encounters life lessons that will show him the healing found in forgiveness-and an unexpected model of integrity and character.