Flying from New York to Reykjavik, seeing the dancing Northern Lights, meeting up with Reed, renting a car, driving all over southwestern Iceland, geysirs, tourists, waterfalls, whale bones, lighthouses, drunken nights...Iceland.

Further exploring the stories and events written in Chapter 1 of Room To Roam. The philosophy of slow travel, frantic writing, Aurora Borealis, how significant someone met so briefly can be in a story, and advice on hostel life.

After months of anticipation the adventure begins in southeastern Washington. A slow train to Seattle, overnight flight to New York, flying over Greenland, dancing Northern Lights, late night arrival to a Reykjavik hostel. The backpacking journey across Europe has quite the beginning!

Starting a publication company isn't as hard as you might think. Join us as we journey from picking a name, setting up ISBNs, choosing software, marketing, and publishing novels under your very own imprint. The amount of work is high, the number of jobs is many, but as writers we love the struggle.

Who I am, what we are, how this podcast will be different from others out there about writing. This episode sets the foundation for what's to come, explains who I am as a writer and scientist and husband and father and creator. How I came to be this person and what I hope to achieve in the future.

Room To Roam is a novel chronicling the trip of a lifetime. A 26-year-old's journey of backpacking 19 countries of Europe in 94 days. Constant movement. Many lessons learned. The Prologue explains the life before the big trip. Expansive hop fields, close friends, dreams of a Europe so far away, a decent Man Bun...it all culminates in a kind of 'going away party' before everthing gets thrown into an adventurous chaos. 

Narrated by the writer - Tyler Grindstaff

Room To Roam is a novel chronicling the trip of a lifetime. A 26-year-old's journey of backpacking 19 countries of Europe in 94 days. Constant movement. Many lessons learned. The Author's Note gives the listener insight into why the novel exists and how it came to be.

Narrated by the writer - Tyler Grindstaff