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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... hike for that afternoon , I paid close atten- tion to her words . First of all , don't feed them ( " A fed bear is a dead bear " ) , and — perhaps obviously try to stay out of their way . Apparently the thing was not to surprise them ...
... hike up the canyon wall to the Emerald Pools , and sometime I'll send you the photos I took from there . Sometime when I really hate you and want to torture you . . . Okay , yeah , it was beautiful , but there are a surprising number of ...
... hike I could put more names to the scenery around me . Rabbitbrush ( big , yellowish ) , snakeweed ( small green clump ) , big sage ( smells great in rain ) , peppergrass ( segmented stems , small clump ) , four - winged saltbush ( sage ...