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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... least , though still cold and fiercely windy ) to Tucson for an oil change with my buddies there . I had a route carefully mapped to miss the sprawl of stinky Phoenix ( Abbey's " the blob that ate Arizona " ) , but 50 miles out of ...
... least the idea of home . I still had to get through two more weeks of travel , and the dark day on the horizon called Christmas , but all I seemed to be thinking about as I rode was making the trip back to Mexico City . The long trip ...
... least I can see the end is in sight . The end , I suppose , being " the road . " Well , that's still what works the best , so I'll go with it . I'm glad to have that alternative , at least , for these days nothing else is appealing ...