Bicycling the Continental Divide Slice of Heaven Taste of Hell eBook Frosty Wooldridge
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Bike touring adventure along the Continental Divide carries a bit of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. The author mixes hope with adventure, pain with courage and bicycling with mountains. John Brown, a friend left behind to battle cancer, provides guts and heart for his two friends who ride into the teeth of nature's fury. Along the way, you'll laugh, cry and gain new appreciations while pondering the meaning of life."
Bicycling the Continental Divide Slice of Heaven Taste of Hell eBook Frosty Wooldridge
Good concept, but I found a few facets of his writing to be very distracting. Quote John Muir less, write about the cycling more. Share your political thoughts less, describe the actual sites and experiences more (like the outhouse encounter). Even if I agree with what you're saying, I picked up this book to read about cycling, not an editorial page or a Sierra Club ad.No maps?? Not one?? I know that adding images adds cost when publishing through Author House, as was done here, but, boy, I would have accepted even a summary map in the introduction if not a map for each chapter. I'm not asking for the level of detail in an Adventure Cycling map, just something to give perspective, proximity, and orientation.
Also, this book needs an editor's eye. Although not pervasive, there are enough grammar or spelling mistakes to be distracting.
I have read several cycling accounts, and so far this book has been the least effective in its ability to put me at the author's side while riding.
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Bicycling the Continental Divide Slice of Heaven Taste of Hell eBook Frosty Wooldridge Reviews
Ever hear of the Leadville 100 Mountain Bike Race Across the Sky? Somebody dreamed it up as a prank by inviting racing maniacs to ride 100 miles in 12 hours over four 12,000 foot and one 13,000 foot pass high in the Colorado Rockies.
The author of this book participated in that race three times. It gave him an idea to ride the entire spine of the Rocky Mountains on his mountain bike.
He asked two other long-time friends to join him on the ride. That's when a painful twist entered the picture. An Australian friend named John Brown who rode coast to coast across the USA with Wooldridge in 1986 suffered a case of cancer three weeks before the ride.
While Brown stayed home with a chemo drip plugged into his veins, the two other riders started in Banff, Canada on an arduous journey down the Continental Divide to Juarez, Mexico. Wooldridge delves into the life and death world of cancer that Brown endured. Wooldridge fought his way up 12,000 foot passes while Brown fought for his life.
In 21st century America, every bicyclist knows someone who suffers from the many forms of cancer affecting millions of Americans. It takes countless lives worldwide.
How would you feel if your best friend might die from cancer? How would your world change? What if it was you?
Wooldridge spins a tale of life and death, hope and courage, fun and tears. Denis, the other friend and a Frenchman, provides humor throughout. At times, you'll laugh loudly. Other times, you might nod your head in agreement. For certain, you will gather wisdom from the road shared by long distance touring riders.
In the end, you will travel along with Lewis and Clark, the mountain man Jim Bridger, up the Road Going to the Sun in Glacier, make your way through Yellowstone National Park and the mighty Grand Tetons. You'll cross wagon tracks from the 1800s, climb rugged passes and sit beside clear mountain streams with a campfire's smoke curling into the night sky.
Wooldridge spins a bit of magic in this yarn known as two-wheeled adventure. Once you begin the ride, you can't stop. Brown doesn't give up and neither will you. Happy ending? You'll find out when you ride the Continental Divide.
I love the subject matter and the author seems like a genuinely good soul, but this book has so little description of the ride that I can't really get a feel for what this ride would be like. It also is not smooth flowing like some journals that you read about rides like this. It's more like an outpouring of his thoughts as he takes the journey.
This needed a good editor. I wish this would get a good rewrite because from what I did read it sounds like it was an epic journey.
Good concept, but I found a few facets of his writing to be very distracting. Quote John Muir less, write about the cycling more. Share your political thoughts less, describe the actual sites and experiences more (like the outhouse encounter). Even if I agree with what you're saying, I picked up this book to read about cycling, not an editorial page or a Sierra Club ad.
No maps?? Not one?? I know that adding images adds cost when publishing through Author House, as was done here, but, boy, I would have accepted even a summary map in the introduction if not a map for each chapter. I'm not asking for the level of detail in an Adventure Cycling map, just something to give perspective, proximity, and orientation.
Also, this book needs an editor's eye. Although not pervasive, there are enough grammar or spelling mistakes to be distracting.
I have read several cycling accounts, and so far this book has been the least effective in its ability to put me at the author's side while riding.
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