Roadtrip + Layover is a raw, cinematic memoir about modern love in the age of algorithms, airports, voice messages, and emotional ambiguity.
What starts as a random Instagram interaction and a simple "$200 to chill" unexpectedly evolves into a six-month emotional odyssey filled with Colorado adventures, airport reunions, mountain sunrises, late-night drives, seaweed snacks, art exhibits, foggy roads, zoo lights, music, and the complicated intimacy that forms when two lonely people begin orbiting each other faster than either of them expected.
Told through deeply personal reflections and emotionally charged storytelling, the book explores the blurred line between transactional and genuine connection in modern relationships. As the bond deepens through repeated layovers and daily communication, what once felt temporary slowly becomes emotionally life-changing.
Set against the glowing backdrop of Denver, Red Rocks, Golden, Meow Wolf, Stanley Marketplace, and endless Colorado highways, Roadtrip + Layover captures the feeling of falling in love inside moments that were never meant to last forever.
At its core, this is a story about emotional acceleration, attachment, loneliness, hope, uncertainty, digital intimacy, and the ways certain people permanently alter our emotional landscape even after they leave.
For readers who have ever:
- fallen too fast,
- waited on read receipts,
- built futures in their head,
- loved someone they couldn't fully define,
- or found pieces of themselves in temporary people,
this story will feel painfully familiar.
Bittersweet, atmospheric, vulnerable, and deeply human, Roadtrip + Layover is a memoir about how some relationships don't need permanence to leave permanent marks.
