Come and chase the dream with George and Mary Ayers in the late 1970’s as they trace their yearlong route across Canada up into Alaska and then head down through Mexico to Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Chasing the Dream gives the reader a sense of their adventures along the way with descriptions drawn from their daily travel journals, letters home and photographs.

Along the way you'll get to visit small town Canada, seek out prairie relatives and travel the back roads across the country. Curiosity lures them northward into Canada's Yukon and into the late fall days of Alaska. Snowfalls drive them southward deep into Mexico where relationships falter, then reunite.

Together they discover the culture, history and architecture of Central America and explore the Mayan ruins of Tikal and Quirigua. By the time they reached Panama’s Darien Gap, they had abandoned their camper lifestyle and traveled with only maps and a backpack