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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... head north along the Ottawa River, then turn west, maybe across Canada to Vancouver to visit my brother Danny and his family. Or, I might head northwest through the Yukon and Northwest Territories to Alaska, where I had never traveled ...
... head and looked up at me, “Don't be hurt, but I always knew this was the one thing I just couldn't handle.” She wouldn't let me comfort her, and didn't want anything to do with me really. It was as though she knew she needed me, but her ...
... head: “You know, I still like those two rocks.” My eyebrows lifted at the realization: I actually liked something; and thus from that pair of rocks I began to build a new world. It would have to be a world my little baby soul could ...
... head. “They shouldn't be allowed to get away with saying that. Someone should go after them. I knew it was an 'undetectable' one because it gave off a weird signal.” Damn. Then worse. As he looked over my Ontario driver's license, I saw ...
... head, full blown, right out of a novel: “And nothing was ever the same again...” During the rest of that winter of 1994 I was away working with Rush on our Counterparts tour, so all I could do was read the motorcycle magazines while I ...