The Road Trip

About the Book

Melba and Carol met at a meeting of the East County Writers in 2005, and a close friendship developed over the years. Both women were adventurous, despite their age and health problems, and thought nothing of taking off across the country on a road trip to see the sights. Their only worry was whether they’d still be friends at the end of the journey. This story is the result of that trip.

About the Author

Melba Stolhand was born near Aubrey, Texas, but grew up in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Today, she and her constant companion, Smokey, a seal point Siamese cat, make their home in the Delta area of Northern California. She is a widow with two grown children and a large extended family. Her first novel, Changing Seasons, published in 2008, was the story of a young girl uprooted from everything that was familiar during World War II and set down in a strange land called California. She is currently working on a sequel to that story. Carol Olson Lindahl is a native of Minnesota. As a child, she loved to read and started writing poems when she was thirteen. She saw an ad in the local paper for a senior scribe and sent them a short story. That was published on October 1, 2003, and she has been with them as a senior columnist ever since. Her stories are in the East County Times and other local papers. She is currently working on the story of a wild mustang filly that she rescued in April of 1970.