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 chronicles his personal odyssey and includes 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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... Valley . Parking the bike at the ski lodge , I began the long , relentless ascent of a constant - grade trail which led steadily up through forest and open ski runs , a two - and - a - half hour slog from the trailhead at 5,700 feet and ...
... Valley and the Panamint Valley . Within a few years , the majority of the land surrounding the river and lake had been bought up , surreptitiously and even fraudulently , by repre- sentatives of Los Angeles , and a vast aqueduct was ...
... Valley to the south and the date palms , orchards , and vegetable farms of the Coachella Valley to the north , until it became known as the " Salton Sewer . " 29 Apr Gila Bend 106,786 ( 486 kms ) [ 303 miles ] - Palm Springs CA Awake at ...