With another Bellingham winter on the horizon, Andy 'Tunes' Clark--an untested twenty-seven-year-old idle soul--has a tough decision to make. Succumb to the drudgery of endless days of perpetual rain-drenched malaise or join his best friend, Dangerous Dave, on a soul-searching two-month sojourn throughout sunbaked Mexico. The Manana Method is an engagingly humorous travelogue/memoir which follows two amigos, Andy "Tunes" Clark and his sidekick Dangerous Dave, over nine thousand miles of road, from the border town of Nogales to the southern-most point in Mexico. Set in late1979, the young Americans live on a few dollars a day--existing on churros, street tacos and tamales, scrapping with the rapacious rats and scorpions in cheap hotels, sampling the local psychedelic drugs, and languishing on the white, pristine beaches overlooking a turquoise sea. In the end, their backpacking odyssey imbues them with self-discovery along with a new awareness