California Odyssey - Paperback

Comedy / Jr. High / High School / 8m 9f Flexible Casting / "Car" and Unit SetsA romantic comedy (with a touch of fantasy and myth) about the hopes struggles and adventures of Corky Tad and Jinx on a day-an-a-half trip from San Francisco to San Diego. Tad a serious practical "desert rat " anxiously eager to get to his sister's wedding on time is traveling with his cousin and friend Corky Saylors a mischievous slightly zany "beach bum" and talented photographer. The trip is complicated when they encounter Jinx a charmingly flirtatious young woman who is eagerly seeking her father a rodeo man to write his story for a movie. She convinces them to visit Carnival people Jinx's relatives at the Swan Café who give her a Treasure Box - not to be opened - and her mother an actress where she hears her father is in the California desert. Squabbles over more side trips to the journey fears from a hitchhiker a rescue from an old Prospector who was the friend of her father's temptations over opening a Treasure Box given to Jinx and romance between Jinx and the two young men cause delays adventures...and fun.