My First Motorcycle Adventure

I have to admit it.  The book that started me in my love or road and adventure writing was not the famous Blue Highways or Zen and the Art..., but this little story of Notch Miyake's detour from the rat race to travel by BMW GS across America. 

Driving Around in America

Let me say that while I like Bill bryson, this book seems a bit out of date in that it lacks a certains ensibility and sensitivity of our times.  Having said that, it is one of the funniest road books out there and gives proof for why Bryson has become such a popular raod writer.

How a Walk in the Woods becomes a road book

The first work I read by Bill Bryson was The Lost Continent, a true road book in that he has a car and takes to the road.  But A Walk in the Woods is more sensitive, more interesting and although it takes place on a trail, it is a big trail; - The Appalacian Trail.  And since so many roads started out as trails, this is deserving of road book status - and of being on everyone's must-read list.  Caveat Emptor, I shall reveal my bias; I love this book.

Eureka: Scooters, Firetrucks and Football Helmets take to the Road

Unlike most of the books here, this is fiction.  Very inventive fiction.  Very funny yet, in some ways, dark fiction.  But it is all about the road, or at least one man's mid-life crisis and his struggle to get away from it all.

Things that Start with Q: Roads to Quoz

Following William Least Heat-Moons' epic Blue Highways, this work, while not as neatly tied together as Blue Highways, is one that should not be missed, for there are stories in this work that can, if you let them, change your life.

The Book: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

This is it.  The motorcycle travel book and, for many people, the key to happiness and self fulfillment. 

Riding in Prising's Footsteps

If Prisig's Zen and the Art is the quintesential motorcycle book, then Mark Richardson's is not far behind.  In fact, it's right on its tail, albeing quite a few years later...

Saving Big Sid: Building a Better Vincati

When Matt Biberman learns that his father is slowly dying of heart disease, he wonders what he can do to revivie his father's spirits and give him something to live for.  What better project than the rar Vincati, a combination of a Vincent motor married to a Ducati frame.

American Borders: A Woman, a Russian Motorcycle, and 10,000 miles of Tales

Like Karen Larsen, Carla King went off on here own, but in a rather different way.  On a sidecar motorcycle built by the Russian company, Ural.

Blue Highways: The King of Roadbooks

This is it.  The King of the Road -- well, of road books, anyway.