The Last Garage Sitter — Richard Curtis Hauschild

Bim Stouffer at eighty years old is both a survivor and a seeker. Having lost his wife and facing the pending sale of his house and beloved garage, he must learn to accept the inevitable fact that an assisted living home will be where he spends his last days. Before surrendering to this future he, with the help of his imagination and some friendly ghosts, takes aim on one last quest. Determined to find a mythic place where birds go to die, he sets out with three companions on the road to the land of the Lakota and the Black Hills. What he discovers is much more than what he had imagined and a little less than he had hoped. The Last Garage sitter is a stand-alone novel with roots in the popular Ledge Series of books.