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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... side up and the rubber side down . " More snow - dusted mountains came into view as I approached Dawson , at the end of a relatively easy day's ride on a dry , paved highway under sunny skies . It was still early in the afternoon , and ...
... side trips to avoid repeating the same route . North from Whitefish to Eureka , through the inevitable forested mountains ( my " soulscape , " after all ) , then back south to Libby ( on the “ excellent 37 , ” as I described it ) along ...
... side trips , first to the Hell's Canyon Dam , at the bottom of the high narrow gorge of the Snake and the Seven Devils Mountains , then another 20 - mile climb on a rough road of gravel , dirt , and rocks ( " the dry stream - bed effect ...