Excerpts from Foreword by Tim Moore

There is in everyone's life, a turning point. A moment or a season that becomes a sort of historical hinge: when all that had been, no longer was, and everything that was possible, became. For Bill Vancil, the "moment" came packaged in a thunderbolt; a bullet-to-the-bone diagnosis that would change his life forever.

When Vancil was told he had prostate cancer, he raced to find a cure for his illness, and a direction toward which to travel. In the process, in an unexpected time and place, he found the symmetry that was his life.

Don't Fear the Big Dogs is a story replete with discovery; a look at all our lives, seen through the moments and the miles of an incredible journey.

This book is a rich dessert of a story, woven like vines through Bill's sixty-third year, just as the sunlit back roads of southern California mapped his journey with thirteen year old daughter, Tori Lou. Together they logged over seven thousand miles. They cried, they laughed, they sang songs, and discovered each other all over again.

Arguably the story of someone seeking remedy from a serious illness or a life setback is not singularly unusual. There are in fact, countless epics of uplifting deliverance from near tragedy; each deserving of the telling.

What differentiates Bill's story bubbles to the top through his boundless awakening along the journey where child becomes parent, and parent – just for a little while – becomes child.  It’s impossible to read these chapters without being inspired – without being a part of an incredible journey.

Ride with Bill and Tori Lou with the top down, racing before the canyon wind. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you may – just for a fleeting moment – see yourself in the mirror, discovering . . .

Tim Moore
Author of  “The Motivator”