The proverbial deep breath gave me the illusion of commitment, to the day and to the journey, and I put my left boot onto the footpeg, swung my right leg high over the heavily laden bike, and settled into the familiar saddle. [...] When I saw headlights coming down the driveway to where the house lights showed the markings of a police car, I remembered the previous summer when the provincial police came to ask about a robbery down the road, and I thought it must be something like that. [...] In the gray twilight of morning we put the downcast Nicky in the car and headed for Toronto, driving through the rain to face the end of the world. [...] The first hint of a possible upturn came one afternoon when I was sitting on the dock with a glass of The Macallan in one hand and a cigarette in the other. [...] However, I was starting with first principles, the Earth, and now that I was traveling westward I began to respond to the landscapes around me too, the rugged cliffs and forests around Lake Nipigon and the north shore of Lake Superior.
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- 917.04/539
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- 9781459312074 1550225480
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- E27.5
- LCCN Item number
- P42 2002eb
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Title Page 2
- Dedication 3
- Table of Contents 4
- Book 1: Riding the Healing Road 6
- Chapter 1: Into Exile 7
- Chapter 2: Westering 21
- Chapter 3: North to Inuvik 45
- Chapter 4: West to Alaska 67
- Chapter 5: First-Class Saddletramp 83
- Chapter 6: The Loneliest Road in America 105
- Chapter 7: Desert Solitaire 145
- Chapter 8: Letters to Brutus 181
- Book 2: Homeward Angel, On the Fly 235
- Chapter 9: Winterlude 237
- Chapter 10: Seasonal Affective Disorder 271
- Chapter 11: Back in the Saddle 311
- Chapter 12: Spring Fever 321
- Chapter 13: Summerlude 345
- Chapter 14: Eastering 387
- Chapter 15: Riding the Jetstream 409
- Chapter 16: Coast Rider 427
- Chapter 17: Telescope Peak 449
- Chapter 18: Epilogue: Ever After 457
- Acknowledgments 463
- Copyright 465
- Back Cover 466