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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... rode down to the village wharf and joined a cruise around the lake in a sightseeing boat . The park ranger spoke on the boat's PA system as we cruised slowly along the shore of lodgepole pines , cotton- woods , trembling aspens , and ...
... rode past the Arco Arena , a great hump of concrete just outside Sacramento , I was reminded of playing concerts there in years past , and my imagining of the inside of that arena alive with a crowd of thousands of screaming fans at a ...
... rode down into northern Arizona , then west through Black Mesa and the electric railroad which features in Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang , along with the huge coal power plant ( called Navajo Scrubber Plant , or some such ) ...