Trippin' tells the story of living the life of transient laborers in the Rocky Mountain oil fields during the 1940s and 50s. While war mounted in Europe and the Pacific, oil field kids moved with their dads and moms from one oil patch and trailer camp to another chasing black gold to fuel a nation at war. With each story the narrator moves closer to the end of his oil field days when at the age of twelve his dad is killed in an oil rig explosion. "With these stories I could keep talking with my dad. I could hold on to his presence until I could walk on alone. His stories and my life with him saved me."