What Remains: A Memoir of an Old Man's Journey on the Road - Inspiring Travel Stories for Adventure Seekers & Life Reflection
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"What Remains" is an intense first-person road book, travel in the extreme - old man, old motorcycle, three thousand miles of old broken roads. Mountains and deserts and small town America, three hundred potholed miles at a time.Out of the way characters in the empty places where they hack out an existence. The grit and grace it takes to get by, the natural beauty that revives the old guy's affection for people as they are.What it takes to get old too, sunburn and ache at the end of the day, nothing left but the attention he brings to himself and the folks having dinner at the next table. The hard-won clarity that comes with solitude and exhaustion, the glacial attrition of age and decline - body, brainpan, capacity to dream. "What Remains" is a present tense account of an old man's quest out beyond the mate seeking and resume building and family raising that dominate the mid-section of life. How to navigate loss and diminishment, the dark certainty of death? It is a journey that reignites a sense of adventure about aging itself, the ingredients of a rich and passionate life.All this and that distracting crash in Death Valley.
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4.5
The author confronts life in an honest way, which is a hallmark of any good book that is trying to be introspective. There's no romanticizing the road: when it's hot it's hot and when it's raining he get wet. The book does switch to very short, slightly disjointed chapters toward the end as it goes through the aftermath of the ride, but the reason for that is quite obvious and somewhat fitting.It was a page-turner for me and I read it very quickly, looking forward to a chance each day to get through a few more chapters.
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