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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... morning carried me into another positive response to worldly beauty , as I left Neepawa at sunrise on a fine prairie morning , cool and cloudy , the road still wet from the night's showers . The Yellowhead Highway meandered gently with ...
... morning I remembered it , and hoped to make it that far . The gravel parking lot in front was lined with cars and sport - utility vehicles bearing licence plates from South Dakota , New York , Washington , Colorado , Texas , Utah ...
... morning I had been on the phone with the landscape archi- tect who was designing a memorial for Jackie and Selena to ... morning's ride I called " Escape from Reno , " as I wheeled out on a cold , clear day and followed a twisting little ...