Sprout has heard many voices on his trip. Announcements in the following airports: Newark, Cincinatti, San Francisco, Sacramento and Atlanta. He has heard his mama exclaiming over the organic milk and the "community table" in the Berkeley Starbucks where she went to download email. He has heard her say that Starbucks everywhere, from New York to Silicon Valley to London are the same, with this one exception.

He has heard a discussion of "raptivism" and the hip-hop generation on KPFA while his parents drove off to Point Reyes. He has heard family gatherings and stories, eaten course after course of organic and wonderful foods, has danced more at his grandparents 50th anniversary than he might at his senior prom.

He has heard jazz, rap, deep baritone voices, deeper baritone saxaphone, one lonely seagull and Pacific Ocean waves. Most importantly, he has heard his parents laughing on the beach...