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Book SynopsisComedy / Jr. High / High School / 8m, 9f, Flexible Casting / Car and Unit SetsA romantic comedy (with a touch of fantasy and myth) about the hopes, struggles, and adventures of Corky, Tad, and Jinx, on a day-an-a-half trip from San Francisco to San Diego. Tad, a serious, practical desert rat, anxiously eager to get to his sister''s wedding on time, is traveling with his cousin and friend, Corky Saylors, a mischievous, slightly zany beach bum and talented photographer. The trip is complicated when they encounter Jinx, a charmingly flirtatious young woman, who is eagerly seeking her father, a rodeo man, to write his story for a movie. She convinces them to visit Carnival people, Jinx''s relatives at the Swan Café who give her a Treasure Box - not to be opened - and her mother, an actress, where she hears her father is in the California desert. Squabbles over more side trips to the journey, fears from a hitchhiker, a rescue from an old Prospector, who was the friend of her father''s, temp
