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The Vagabundos

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When Eric Hansen sets out to track down his father somewhere on the Baja pennisula in Mexico, he can't imagine why his father left home and it is his objective to bring him back. Many days later, when father and son finally confront each other - both lean and tan and toughened by outdoor living - Eric is far less sure that his father should return.

The life of luxury left behind in the Southern California residential area called Rancho Sereno contrasts sharply with that of the simple fishermen that Eric meets along the coast of Baja - the vagabondos - for whom it is enough to own a small boat, some fishing tackle, and all the fish in the Gulf. In his seasrch, Eric is forced to trade his motorcycle for a fisherman's sailboat at the point where the road ends, and Eric then becomes a vagabundo, too, in a sense, taking his food from the water, and sleeping at night on the beach under the open sky.

The Vagabundos is rich with a sense of the quality of life and living in Baja, it has some wise things to say about the role of men and women in each other's lives, and the struggle of every man to live out his life in a meaningful way. But most of all, it is an adventurous story of a boy on the wing.
--- from book's dustjacket.