Cam Blesi and a friend set out from the beach in his hometown in Connecticut on a hot June morning, bound for California, on horseback. It is 1969, the apex of the sixties movement, a time when such outrageous undertakings hardly raised an eyebrow. He had always been uncomfortable growing up in the affluence of Fairfield County. The wealthy lifestyles seemed irrelevant to him. In his heart of hearts, he was certain he should've been born in the vast American west a hundred years earlier, and he should've grown up to be a ...
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Cam Blesi and a friend set out from the beach in his hometown in Connecticut on a hot June morning, bound for California, on horseback. It is 1969, the apex of the sixties movement, a time when such outrageous undertakings hardly raised an eyebrow. He had always been uncomfortable growing up in the affluence of Fairfield County. The wealthy lifestyles seemed irrelevant to him. In his heart of hearts, he was certain he should've been born in the vast American west a hundred years earlier, and he should've grown up to be a cowboy. Powerful emotional issues are driving this great adventure but Cam is unaware of them. Learning as a child to prefer make-believe to reality, he has a habit of wholly adopting grand fantasies about who or what he is, rather than accept who he really is. If the circumstances become too difficult or complicated so that he's unable to manage and sustain the fantasy, he will quit or run away. As he embarks on the ride, he sees himself as going off to fulfill a dream, but in reality he is running from a failed marriage and the painful separation from his little boy. And, even though he believes the life choices he makes are thoughtful, deliberate decisions, each one is inevitably just a reaction to the failed outcome of the one that preceded it. Gradually, his life comes to resemble a leaf blown by the wind, as the fantasy world he's created and fully embraced begins to come undone, and he is forced to face the realities of living life as it comes.
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