On Becoming a Lord of the Earth

Bennion shares how he has taken departure from his home in Utah a good number of times because he periodically gets restless. Whatever the cause, when his suburban neighborhood seems claustrophobic as a mall, and the valley he lives in as conservative, patriarchal, and paranoid as a John Birch convention, he talks his wife and kids into taking off. Bennion also narrates his great-great-grandfather John's experiences of wandering; leaving his father's farm in Hawarden, Flinstshire, Wales in 1832 and finally settling farther south at a bend in the Jordan River in the state of Utah in 1850.