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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... Travelling had always been a more or less normal condition for me , not only as the necessary environment of a ... travelled the roads of China , Africa , Europe , and North America , at first by bicycle , and later by motorcycle , and ...
... travelling together through the Four Corners region : Brutus and me on our bikes , and the girls in a rented minivan . For the next few days I would be travelling some of those same roads , with the inevitable poignant memories . Oct 24 ...
... travelling . Because I still felt so raw , vulnerable , and alienated , it had been necessary for me to find a way to cope with the world , a " stance " from which I could face strangers every day — to make the normal small talk while ...