The Voyage of the Sunship
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2025
Pages: 164
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2025
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The Voyage of the Sunship follows the unique journey of Dillon Roderick from his native Washington, DC to San Diego, California. After the death of his father and the dissolution of life as he knew it, including the loss of his full academic scholarship, Dillon resolves to leave home to complete his education elsewhere. With its ideal climate and low-cost education, he decides upon San Diego State University. The Voyage of the Sunship chronicles Dillon’s journey to graduation, as his quest to attain a diploma, blends with an evolving desire to explore his new home by bicycle, and travel to different exotic places he never imagined possible while living in DC. Equipped with his trustee bicycle Sunship, and an intense desire to explore places near and far, he travels up and down the coast challenging himself physically and mentally, visiting some of the most beautiful sites on the southern California coast. The journey is multidimensional, though, as his quest for personal development is interrupted by an unexpected presence, Juliana, who needs his help to save her dying planet. With this background, Dillon continues his journey while helping and hurting Juliana’s quest. The solution to her dilemma is more complicated than expected, interacting with Dillon’s academic successes, and numerous dating failures. With unexpected twists and curious adventures on both coasts, The Voyage of the Sunship takes the reader through Dillon’s often bizarre experiences and the many interesting people he meets, as it delves deeply into the psychology of developmental change in the life of a young adult with a desire to live a not common life.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Death is a start not an end
Chapter 2: Walking and thinking
Chapter 3: Hearthstone Exotics
Chapter 4: YMCA
Chapter 5: Buses and Shacks
Chapter 6: Hare Krishna
Chapter 7: Channeling Greg Lemond
Chapter 8: Beach cruisers, surfboards, and pastel cars
Chapter 9: Mount Soledad
Chapter 10: Faceplant
Chapter 11: Camp Pendleton
Chapter 12: Juliana is Sunship
Chapter 13: Corletta Stone likes my chest
Chapter 14: The Intersection House
Chapter 15: Matagalpa
Chapter 16: Juliana, are you okay?
Chapter 17: The Collective unconscious
Daniel Rodriguez is a professor of Public Health at La Salle University in Philadelphia. His areas of specialization are biostatistics, research methods, and epidemiology. Dr. Rodriguez teaches courses in all three of these areas as well as a grant writing seminar and the capstone course sequence for Masters level students. Dr. Rodriguez also consults with research professionals preparing and managing federal and foundation grants. He has been a biostatistician on numerous federally funded grants and has secured and completed grants of his own. Dr. Rodriguez has extensive training in statistics and research methods, with particular focus on structural equation modeling (SEM) and longitudinal data analysis. More detail about Dr. Rodriguez’s career can be found in his Curriculum Vitae.
The Voyage of the Sunship follows the unique journey of Dillon Roderick from his native Washington, DC to San Diego, California. After the death of his father and the dissolution of life as he knew it, including the loss of his full academic scholarship, Dillon resolves to leave home to complete his education elsewhere. With its ideal climate and low-cost education, he decides upon San Diego State University. The Voyage of the Sunship chronicles Dillon’s journey to graduation, as his quest to attain a diploma, blends with an evolving desire to explore his new home by bicycle, and travel to different exotic places he never imagined possible while living in DC. Equipped with his trustee bicycle Sunship, and an intense desire to explore places near and far, he travels up and down the coast challenging himself physically and mentally, visiting some of the most beautiful sites on the southern California coast. The journey is multidimensional, though, as his quest for personal development is interrupted by an unexpected presence, Juliana, who needs his help to save her dying planet. With this background, Dillon continues his journey while helping and hurting Juliana’s quest. The solution to her dilemma is more complicated than expected, interacting with Dillon’s academic successes, and numerous dating failures. With unexpected twists and curious adventures on both coasts, The Voyage of the Sunship takes the reader through Dillon’s often bizarre experiences and the many interesting people he meets, as it delves deeply into the psychology of developmental change in the life of a young adult with a desire to live a not common life.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Death is a start not an end
Chapter 2: Walking and thinking
Chapter 3: Hearthstone Exotics
Chapter 4: YMCA
Chapter 5: Buses and Shacks
Chapter 6: Hare Krishna
Chapter 7: Channeling Greg Lemond
Chapter 8: Beach cruisers, surfboards, and pastel cars
Chapter 9: Mount Soledad
Chapter 10: Faceplant
Chapter 11: Camp Pendleton
Chapter 12: Juliana is Sunship
Chapter 13: Corletta Stone likes my chest
Chapter 14: The Intersection House
Chapter 15: Matagalpa
Chapter 16: Juliana, are you okay?
Chapter 17: The Collective unconscious
Daniel Rodriguez is a professor of Public Health at La Salle University in Philadelphia. His areas of specialization are biostatistics, research methods, and epidemiology. Dr. Rodriguez teaches courses in all three of these areas as well as a grant writing seminar and the capstone course sequence for Masters level students. Dr. Rodriguez also consults with research professionals preparing and managing federal and foundation grants. He has been a biostatistician on numerous federally funded grants and has secured and completed grants of his own. Dr. Rodriguez has extensive training in statistics and research methods, with particular focus on structural equation modeling (SEM) and longitudinal data analysis. More detail about Dr. Rodriguez’s career can be found in his Curriculum Vitae.