San Francisco writer, performer and playwright Dan Hoyle set off in a Ford E-150 conversion van on a three-month-long summer journey into America's heartland to discover just what -- and who -- lies between the liberal-leaning cultures of the East and West coasts. Hoyle, a Fulbright scholar and son of well-known Bay Area circus performer Geoff Hoyle, shares with Spark what he found during his rambling adventure across some 20 states. Hoyle's travels through countless small towns and the people he met along the way inspired the solo show Real Americans, a humorous and thought-provoking window into American lives lived far outside the big city.