Mountains Into Roads
A True Story of Saying Yes to the Journey:
Across America and Across the Heart
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"Every adventure lived by every person in the history of the world has started the same way:
someone, somewhere, said ‘yes.’"
Sometimes the road to the life we're longing for leads us straight through the places we thought we’d left behind.
Nearly ten years after losing her mom, Shawna finds herself stuck, with grief still affecting every area of her life. Weighed down by old wounds, unfulfilled dreams, and a marriage on the brink of falling apart, she and her husband pack up their NYC apartment and take off on a cross-country adventure to face it all—no map, no plans, just God as their guide.
Memories from the past begin to collide with the present out on the open road, creating extraordinary encounters with God that bring healing, grace to let go, and renewed hope.
This is not a tidy faith story.
You’ll wade into frigid waters. Get caught in lightning storms on mountaintops. Wipe out on sand dunes. And meet colorful characters in the most unexpected places. Each moment becomes an invitation to believe again as you journey across the country, and across the heart.
The road into the unknown is paved with miracles, discovered one courageous yes at a time.
Mountains Into Roads is more than a memoir. It’s a companion for your own inner journey, one that will awaken your soul and leave you able to feel your own heart beating again.
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Mountains Into Roads
A True Story of Saying Yes to the Journey:
Across America and Across the Heart
Sometimes the road to the life we're longing for leads us straight through the places we thought we’d left behind.
Nearly ten years after losing her mom, Shawna finds herself stuck, with grief still affecting every area of her life. Weighed down by old wounds, unfulfilled dreams, and a marriage on the brink of falling apart, she and her husband pack up their NYC apartment and take off on a cross-country adventure to face it all—no map, no plans, just God as their guide.
Memories from the past begin to collide with the present out on the open road, creating extraordinary encounters with God that bring healing, grace to let go, and renewed hope.
This is not a tidy faith story.
You’ll wade into frigid waters. Get caught in lightning storms on mountaintops. Wipe out on sand dunes. And meet colorful characters in the most unexpected places. Each moment becomes an invitation to believe again as you journey across the country, and across the heart.
The road into the unknown is paved with miracles, discovered one courageous yes at a time.
Mountains Into Roads is more than a memoir. It’s a companion for your own inner journey, one that will awaken your soul and leave you able to feel your own heart beating again.
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Shipping Begins October 26, 2026
What People Are Saying
Nothing But Time
“There was nothing but time on the road,
I was learning. Time to remember. Time to think. Time to feel. Time to process.”
A Myth of my Childhood
“The Grand Canyon was a myth of my childhood. I was finishing something by coming here with my husband. A single ‘someday’ in a bag of family ‘somedays,’ most of which would never be fulfilled.”
Make Me Whole Again
“My heart was in both at once, ripped right down the middle. Half here, half back on the other coast, with pieces of me scattered across all the miles of road in between.”GET YOUR COPY
Sometimes the road to the life we're longing for leads us straight through the places we thought we’d left behind.
Nearly ten years after losing her mom, Shawna finds herself stuck, with grief still affecting every area of her life. Weighed down by old wounds, unfulfilled dreams, and a marriage on the brink of falling apart, she and her husband pack up their NYC apartment and take off on a cross-country adventure to face it all—no map, no plans, just God as their guide.
Memories from the past begin to collide with the present out on the open road, creating extraordinary encounters with God that bring healing, grace to let go, and renewed hope.
This is not a tidy faith story.
You’ll wade into frigid waters. Get caught in lightning storms on mountaintops. Wipe out on sand dunes. And meet colorful characters in the most unexpected places. Each moment becomes an invitation to believe again as you journey across the country, and across the heart.
The road into the unknown is paved with miracles, discovered one courageous yes at a time.
Mountains Into Roads is more than a memoir. It’s a companion for your own inner journey, one that will awaken your soul and leave you able to feel your own heart beating again.
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Shipping Begins October 26, 2026
"Someday" is today
“It would be so cool to take that cross-country road trip someday.”
I was thirty-two, grinding coffee beans when Husband opened the bag of teenage hopes we’d kept high on the shelf of our Manhattan apartment. The ones we never quite seemed to get around to when dealing with sickness and death. The words poked something sharp in me. Maybe it was irritability from the debilitating cramps reminding me that, once again, we weren’t expecting in the next nine months. Maybe it was the smell of hot summer city trash three floors below wafting through the window. I was agitated, grinding and waiting for coffee to brew or baby to come or the happiness I was still working hard for to finally be achieved.
“Yes,” I answered, slamming an empty mug on the counter. “Let’s do it.”
“We can’t,” Husband sighed, heavy with everything he didn’t need to say. Rent. Bills. Jobs. The rational response to a dream that seemed lofty and impractical.
“I mean it, babe. We do it now,
or we never talk about it again.”
A glimpse at the memories a single 'yes' made.-
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Goodbye, New York City!
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Land Between the Lakes, TN.
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Land Between the Lakes, TN.
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"Freedom can be an illusion..." LBTL
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Cairo, Illinois - an abandoned place
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Antique Annie's Shop - Sarcoxie, MO
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Great Sand Dunes - Colorado
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Campfire dinner in Colorado
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Professional bull ridin', honey. Oklahoma
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Kitty in Ouray, Colorado
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Camp Hale, Colorado
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Krause Springs, Texas
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Somewhere near Tucumcari, New Mexico
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Route 66 stop in New MExico
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Great Sand Dunes, Colorado
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Husband ready to ride the dunes!!
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Husband hikes Bryce!!
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Antelope Canyon wonder
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Shadows + light in Antelope Canyon
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Pensacola, Florida
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Almost had the beach to ourselves in Pensacola
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Shannon Hoon vigil, Lafayette, Indiana
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Candlelight + music. Shannon Hoon Vigil, IN.
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Streets of New Orleans
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Post hike - Maroon Bells, Colorado
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Dreamy Savannah, Georgia
