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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... story of a journey. My interest in writing had begun with composing lyrics for the band, and had grown from a taste ... stories, I would print up a few copies of them for friends and fellow travellers, until after learning my way through ...
... story published as “Catching Some Midnight Rays” in Cycle Canada magazine), before rejoining our families for the summer in Quebec. My birthday present from Jackie that September was a card reading “Seven days of freedom,” and we took ...
... story.” I recounted my three-hour ordeal back at the Cottonwood gas station, and explained that I was trying to make up some time and get to Grande Prairie before dark. The mustachioed Mountie was friendly and sympathetic, and this time ...
... story there, but I soon realized it wouldn't be a happy one, for she was grumbling at length to a redfaced young waiter who had apparently forgotten her order. She seemed to take it as a personal insult, and summoned the manager and ...
... story in brief, painful words — and after offering a formulaic expression of sympathy, she told me how that might affect a buyer's response to the house, then went on to argue repeatedly against my objection to holding “open house ...