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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... town . ( Because the Stikine River flowed down to the Alaskan town of Wrangell , Telegraph Creek was a kind of frontier outpost between the two countries . ) I was virtually alone in my own private ghost town , watching the river flow ...
... town of Goldfield to the junction with the Grand Army of the Republic Highway , I decided to look for a room in the little town of Tonopah ( the " pah " suffix means " water " in Shoshone , and thus shows up regularly in place names in ...
... town like this , you'd think it would be easy . But you'd be wrong . Must have looked in 25 or 30 stores ( the tackier the better ) all along the malecón , all through the old town , and found one cheesy little sticker in the far corner ...