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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... felt suddenly galvanized — dumb , nervous , and afraid . Pretty girls have always tended to have that effect on me , on the rare occasions when I was confronted by one , but I hadn't felt any of those kinds of feelings for a long time ...
... felt alienated , disintegrated , and unengaged with life around me . " Oh yes , " I thought , " that's me all right . I am the ghost rider . " However , even a ghost rider couldn't pass through international borders unmolested by ...
... felt responsible for everyone in his family , all the time , and perhaps deep inside he felt these losses as a kind of " failure " - as if his loved ones had died " on his watch , " when it had been his job to keep them alive . I ...