Recounts the voyage of Hofstra University's traveling course, "An American Odyssey : art and culture across America", a six-week experimental class aboard a sleeper bus. The class visited thirty states and ten national parks, read twelve books by great American writers, and met some cultural heroes.

Frank Perugi and his "Majic Bus" -- Virginia is for lovers of Thomas Jefferson and Sam Shepard -- Into the Mississippi Delta -- Chicago : our kind of town -- From Lincoln's Springfield to Truman's Independence -- The New Age, Buddhism, and Boulder -- The Rocky Mountains and Mesa Verde National Park -- San Francisco : the gold and white acropolis -- The Badlands, Black Hills, and cattle branding.