Our road trip started in Tucson and wound its way up into the mountains northwest of Phoenix. At our first stop in Prescott, we attended the first Faerieworld's Festival, where Terri was one of their Guests of Honour. The Kunzies left us early, but the rest of our posse travelled on in a couple of cars to Jerome and finally Sedona.

When MaryAnn and I got back home, the book and its wonderful illustrations were only an idea, but the landscape and the mood of what the story would be were still fresh in my mind, so I wrote this song, which appears in the beginning of the book.

Red Dog chasing Jackalope 
Out in the badlands that's the way it can go 
Driven by hunger, looking for something 
Deep in the desert, deep in the soul

Medicine wheel, dreams in the moonlight 
From each direction, the four winds blow 
Coyote Woman, she has a vision 
Sets them to travel on the Medicine Road

refrain: 
They're on the Medicine Road, out in the desert 
Thunder is [bad word] low 
Bound by a promise laid upon them 
To help each other on the Medicine Road

In the flight of the hawk there is a mystery 
In the sound of a flute hear a raven's cry 
In the beat of a [bad word] there is a heartbeat 
In the eyes of a lover is a medicine sky 
    refrain

Smoke is rising, sage and sweetgrass 
Smoke is rising like an eagle's flight 
Smoke is rising, tobacco burning 
Smoke is rising from a medicine pipe 
    refrain

Brothers and sisters are guided by spirits 
Some follow the Ghost Dance, some the buffalo 
Los peyoteros are guided by Mescal 
Coyote's children take the Medicine Road 
    refrain