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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... touring” model) was packed with everything I might need for a trip of unknown duration, to unknown destinations. Two hard-shell luggage cases flanked the rear wheel, while behind the saddle I had stacked a duffel bag, tent, sleeping bag ...
... touring musician and an inveterate traveler. We had made it through all that, and now the loss of what we each treasured most would drive us apart. During those first awful weeks in Toronto our friends and family filled the House of ...
... touring musician for the past 23 years with Rush, but also as a kind of escape from all that. Between concert tours I had traveled the roads of China, Africa, Europe, and North America, at first by bicycle, and later by motorcycle, and ...
... tour, Test for Echo, and now I couldn't imagine taking up that project again. That night in Cochrane, I took refuge in my journal notes once more, as I sat in the Northern Lites dining room after my fried pickerel (usually the tastiest ...
... tour, so all I could do was read the motorcycle magazines while I dreamed about riding that beautiful red beast. In April, I attended a riding class at a Toronto college with Rush guitarist Alex, who had been bitten by “the bug” himself ...