Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing RoadWithin a ten-month period, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was left without direction. This memoir tells of the sense of personal devastation that led him on a 55,000-mile journey by motorcycle across much of North America, down through Mexico to Belize, and back again. Peart’s journey of self-exile and exploration chronicle his personal odyssey and include stories of reuniting with friends and family, grieving, and reminiscing. He recorded with dazzling artistry, the enormous range of his travel adventures, from the mountains to the seas, from the deserts to the Arctic ice, and the memorable people who contributed to his healing. Ghost Rider is a brilliantly written, and ultimately triumphant narrative memoir from a gifted writer and the drummer and lyricist of the legendary rock band Rush. |
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... carry away with me that morning had less bulk, but more weight — the invisible burdens that had driven me to depart into what already seemed like a kind of exile. But at that moment, before I'd turned a wheel or even pushed off the ...
... carry on; I had no interest in life, work, or the world beyond, but unlike Jackie, who had surely willed her death, I seemed to be armored with some kind of survival instinct, some inner reflex that held to the conviction that ...
... carry on. Something would come up. Or maybe it was more like the Mormon woman's statement, “The only reason I am alive is because I could not die.” In any case, I was now setting out on my motorcycle to try to figure out what kind of ...
... carry the weight of yet another unbearable tragedy, I had even less reason to care about the future — or even if I had a future. Certainly I had no interest in playing the drums, or writing lyrics for rock songs. Before that night when ...
... carrying my bags and helmet out to the hotel parking lot. I paused beside the bike to watch a spectacular display of aurora borealis — shimmering veils of greenish light draped across the northern ... carried me back to a. Chapter 2 ...