Roads from the Ashes: An Odyssey in Real Life on the Virtual Frontier

When wildfire destroyed her home in the hills above Los Angeles, Megan Edwards seized the opportunity her sudden "stufflessness" offered. She hit the road with her husband and dog in the Phoenix One, the one-of-a-kind motorhome that "rose from the ashes." This is the story of how a sabbatical that began with no itinerary and no return date grew into a five-year North American odyssey with a mission inspired by the birth of the World Wide Web: "To be at work, at home, and on the road, all at the same grand moment." This 20th anniversary edition, which includes a new foreword, introduction, and photographs, offers a fascinating and often humorous look back at a time not so long ago when email was a bleeding-edge innovation, cellular "roaming" charges could clean out your bank account, and nobody had yet thought of equipping a telephone with a camera."

About the Author
Megan Edwards is the award-winning author of FULL SERVICE BLONDE, GETTING OFF ON FRANK SINATRA, and STRINGS: A LOVE STORY. All three novels were first-place winners of Benjamin Franklin book awards in 2018. She also won the Silver 2019 IPPY Award for FULL SERVICE BLONDE. Edwards is also the author of ROADS FROM THE ASHES: AN ODYSSEY IN REAL LIFE ON THE VIRTUAL FRONTIER, a memoir of her five-year adventure living and working on the road during the dawn of the Internet. At home in Las Vegas, Nevada, where there's never a shortage of fascinating material and inspiration, Edwards is working on her next novel.