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Informationen zum Autor Daryl Farmer has published essays, short stories, poems, and reviews in several journals including South Dakota Review and Prairie Schooner. Klappentext On a journey begun twenty years earlier, Daryl Farmer, a twenty-year-old two-time college dropout, did what lost men have so often done in this country: he headed west. Twenty years later and seventy pounds heavier, with the yellowing journals from that transformative five-thousand-mile bicycle trek in his pack, Farmer set out to retrace his path. This is his story of pursuing that distant summer and that distant dream of home, where home is endless space, a roof of big sky, and a bed of dry earth. Just as the years altered the man, so, too, have they altered the West, and Farmer's second journey affords a unique perspective on these changes-as well as on what lasts. Whether caught in a Colorado snowstorm or braving a Yellowstone herd of bison, kayaking with orcas in Puget Sound, trading Ninja moves with a homeless man in San Francisco, or getting the lowdown on aliens on Nevada's Extraterrestrial Highway, Farmer charts a moving landscape of people and places. This is the West where the natural world and personal character are inextricably linked, and where one man's ride into the past and present takes us to the heart of that ever-evolving connection. Zusammenfassung On a journey begun twenty years earlier, Daryl Farmer, a twenty-year-old two-time college dropout: headed west. Twenty years later, with the yellowing journals from that transformative five-thousand-mile bicycle trek in his pack, Farmer set out to retrace his path. This book presents his story. It charts a moving landscape of people and places. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrologueColorado Departure On How not to Begin Florissant to Fairplay Hoosier Summit Below Freezing A Colorado Cowpatch South of Baggs Wyoming Outlaws, Antelope, Prairie Dogs, and Sage Night at The Antelope Saloon To Jackson Elkfest Signal Mountain Lodge How to Bicycle through a Buffalo Herd Richard IMontana Another Log on the Fire Paradise Valley to Ennis Virginia City to Opportunity Anaconda to Missoula Faceplanting on Highway 2 Glacier National Park Kalispell Again Libby to TroyIdaho Karaoke Night in Bonner's FerryWashington Fire Trucks and Rodeo Queens Okanagan to Friday Harbor The San Juan Islands Anacortes to Port Angeles A Side Trip to Victoria Port Angeles to Shoalwater Bay WinnefredOregon Astoria to Newport On a Sunday Morning A Coming to Peace At the North Bend Airport Intermission: San Francisco Like a Haggard Ghost City of Hills Return to Oregon North Bend to Gold BeachCalifornia To Eureka From Modesto to Yosemite From Mammoth Lake to Mono LakeNevada Tonopah The Extraterrestrial HighwayUtah and Arizona Modena to Kanab At Jacob Lake ...
