You Are Here: My 18,000-mile Motorcycle Ride in Search of Awe

In 2015, at age 57, the author set off on a motorcycle for his "journey of a lifetime." He took three months off from his work as a government analyst to ride across North America, and to document what he saw and felt. Inspired by a series of quasi-extreme challenges, he planned a route that connected Key West, Florida to the Arctic Ocean, including several thousand miles of nerve-wracking, unpaved roads in the Canadian sub-arctic and arctic. Traveling mostly alone, he was ultimately gifted...