A Magnificen Ride to Nowhere
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Sprache:Englisch
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Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
31.03.2026
Verlag
Ga thompsonSeitenzahl
(Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
534 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798233492334
"A perfect mix of humor and quiet, reflective moments... a character-driven story that feels like a real escape."
He thought he was going to die in Vietnam.
So he bought a motorcycle and started saying goodbye.
He didn't die.
But something stayed with him.
A Magnificent Ride to Nowhere begins with a twelve-hundred-mile ride across the American West on a small Yamaha 350 he had never ridden before a journey meant to say goodbye to the people he loved.
He made the trip.
He came home.
And the road did not end there.
What follows is fifty years spent on two wheels across deserts, mountains, and long empty stretches of American highway tracing the full arc of a life lived in motion.
The roads changed.
The country changed.
The man on the motorcycle kept going.
But this is not only a book about riding.
It is also, quietly, a love story one defined not by what happened, but by what didn't.
The most important moment of his life did not take place on a mountain pass.
It happened in a quiet waiting room in 2001, when he met a woman and failed to say what mattered most.
He has been riding with that moment ever since.
Part motorcycle memoir, part road trip, and part long-delayed letter, this is a reckoning with the roads not taken and the understanding that some distances are not measured in miles, but in moments we fail to enter.
After a lifetime of motion, the hardest distance left is the one between what we feel... and what we are willing to say...
,,,this ride was always for you.
Perfect for readers who enjoy:
- Motorcycle travel memoirs and cross-country journeys
- Reflective stories shaped by the Vietnam-era generation
- Books about the American West and philosophical travel
- Emotional memoirs of love, regret, and missed moments
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