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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... cold ( 8 ° C [ 48 ° F ] ) and threatened rain . Not the kind of day that invited travel , so I made up my mind to try staying . Walking up to the lodge for breakfast , I stopped at the desk to book another night . The Northern Rockies ...
... cold up there now , in early October , and in just a few weeks , when the snow started to fly , the pass would be closed for the winter . The ride up ( through Harte Twain , a doppelganger ghost - writer town named after Bret Harte and ...
... cold rain , fog , nasty cross- winds , construction through Albuquerque , and even heavy flakes of wet snow , blinding and worrisome " under - wheel . ” Down I - 25 ( getting south as fast as I could ! ) the snow went away , but the ...