It is January 1978 when Michael Crabtree leaves his hometown of Virginia Beach Virginia with a backpack one hundred dollars a notebook of poems a guitar case and his lost dreams. Having recently lost his athletic scholarship at North Carolina State University due to a football injury Michael decides to hitchhike to Houston Texas to seek work in the oilfields.In his memoir Passage Rites: Adversity's Challenge Michael chronicles how halfway through his first year in Houston he decides to return ho