Riding with Ghosts
Published on 1. June 2010
288 pages
978-1-908646-15-6 (ISBN)
Description
Gwen Maka, a forty-something Englishwoman, was told by everyone that her dream was impossible. Gwen's solo ride takes us across the deserts and vanished Indian trails of the American West, over the snow-peaked Rocky Mountains, down Mexico's Baja coast and finally into the sub-tropics of Central America. Her journey is intertwined with the legends of past events; as she rides through unwordly landscapes, the ghosts of the American Indians and pioneers who shaped the Americas travel with her. Riding with Ghosts is Gwen's frank but never too serious account of her epic 7,500 mile cycling tour. She handles exhaustion, climatic extremes, lechers and a permanently saddle-sore bum in a gutsy, hilarious way. Her journey is a testimony to the power of determination.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgment
- Contents
- Riding with Ghosts
- Map
- Introduction
- Leaving Seattle
- Hockney Landscapes
- Big Hole Battles
- Craters of the Moon
- Shooting Stars
- Road to the Rockies
- Red Mountain Pass
- Winter Wonderland
- Mesa Verde
- Hitchhiking Detour
- Back to the Saddle
- Canyon De Chelley
- Navajo Days
- Hopi Horizons
- Border Country
- South of the Border
- Map
- South of the Border
- Floating on the Old Wharf
- Beach Bums
- Bag Lady
- Copper Canyon
- Doom Mongers
- In the Steps of Pancho Villa
- The House of Eleven Patios
- Bad Decisions in the Valle
- Testosterone Taxco
- Bikini Anna
- Confused in Guatemala
- Pacific Waves
- Rats at Sarah's House
- Deep Waters
- Sandinista Country
- Down the River
- Dripping Trees
