“The Winky-Eyed Jesus and Other Undescribables” is a book by none other than Bakersfield College English professor Scott Wayland. The book describes Wayland’s experience on his 99-day bike ride across the United States.

“The Winky-Eyed Jesus and Other Undescribables: An elite, feral recumbent cyclo-tourist wages human-powered jihad against the force of gravity and the awesome span of the North American continent” describes the strange people and creatures Wayland meets, the landscape and his overall experience in 354 pages.

Wayland’s journey took a little over three months, but his book took nearly four years to write.

Wayland had to find time between teaching in order to finish. “During the semester, a lot of writing didn’t get done. Summer’s when a bulk of the writing happened,” said Wayland.

The book originally began as a blog.

While Wayland was on his journey, he would write on paper at night and would stop at a public library during the day. There, he would type out his daily journal onto his blog.

“The Winky-Eyed Jesus and other Undescribables” is self-published. Wayland himself did the layout, the design and so forth.

Wayland hoped that the title would catch readers’ attention. The strangeness of it comes from an experience that Wayland had with a couple in Ohio.

Wayland claims that if you read the book, you will fully understand the title.

Wayland plans to write a new book after he finishes his next adventure.

He is prepared for yet another bike ride, this time from Alberta, Canada to Colorado.

Writing the book was also quite an experience for Wayland.

Wayland claims, “It was really good for my teaching because I was doing what my students do during the semester.”

The book is recommended for anybody, but people who love the outdoors will have an immediate attraction to Wayland’s book.

It is filled with numerous photos of his journey, humor, internal debate and quite a few embarrassing moments that Wayland is not ashamed to admit.

“It was such an incredible experience, I knew it would make a good book,” Wayland continued. “Hopefully, I inspire people to do some riding themselves.”

“The Winky-Eyed Jesus” can be found on Amazon via paperback or on a Kindle edition.