Clowns On The Bus

About the Book

Whether you have already been, or want to go, on a Humanitarian Clowning Tour, this day-by-day trip journal will entertain and enlighten you with its informal, conversational and silly style. Clowns from many countries, aged 3 to 74, spent two weeks traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg, meeting Russians. Our two missions on this 24th annual Russian tour were to become a close-knit troupe, and to visit children and their caregivers in orphanages, hospitals and home hospices. Patch’s passion for universal justice, peace and healing humor were contagious. “Clowning brings love close.” – Patch Adams, M.D.

About the Author

Judy Lucas learned about clowns from watching Bozo the Clown in black- and-white television in Hawaii. A half-century later, she decided to become one after hearing Patch Adams speak at California State University at Channel Islands, where she was a part-time writing student. Recently retired from teaching and business careers, Judy discovered what she wanted to be next: a storyteller. And to begin, she would write for children about Patch Adams – healer and peace activist. Patch invited her to Russia with him and other clowns. She got on the bus. Judy and her husband, Ted, and dogs Wiley and Cleo live in Camarillo, California.