Another spunky gal takes things in hand and becomes empowered, this
time astride a small Yamaha motorcycle with cell phone and e-mail
ever at the ready.Fresh from a desultory job at the BBC in London,
Pryce carried on at 55 m.p.h., down the length of the Western
Hemisphere from Anchorage to Tierra del Fuego. The tale of her
nine-month trek has all the requisite road-trip ingredients: big
bugs, bad food and lots of dirt. Indomitable Lois tells of venal
bureaucrats, prepubescent border guards, good-looking biker guys
and severe digestive distress. She tented in the wild Yukon and
rode down the AlCan and Pacific Coast Highways, pausing for a visit
with friends to a cheesy L.A. strip club. Pidgin Spanish, icky
tacos and insects in the domain of Subcomandante Marcos marked the
next leg of her trip, down the Pan-American Highway. Journeying
through Central America, across the isthmus and on to South
America, she encountered thieves, fixers and tatty digs, petty
corruption and jolly drinkers. Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca, the
winds of Patagonia and all the rugged landscapes were fine settings
for the cycling hijinks - and for an unpleasant companion's nasty
crash. Pryce also recalls some of the square-jawed natives along
her way, including the sexy repair guys of the Andes. After a bit
of pizza in the New World's southernmost city, it's back to London
and propriety. And so we bid farewell to the rapture of the open
road celebrated so cheerfully in this biker sitcom by a young woman
who declares her "obsession with all things noisy, greasy and
rockin'."A long ride on a dirt bike, on the mild side as often as
the wild. (Kirkus Reviews)
Young and beautiful, Lois Pryce was a rising star at the BBC.
Unbeknownst to her co-workers, Lois lived a parallel life as a
biker babe with an overwhelming sense of wanderlust. So she packed
in her career to ride her motorcycle on her own from the
northernmost tip of Alaska to the southernmost tip of South
America. Alone. Armed only with the Spanish words for 'caution' and
'cheese', Lois was rather under-prepared for multiple bear
sightings, bribing her way through borders, spending a night in a
Mexican brothel and crashing her bike in the wilds of Patagonia.
She most certainly got the adventure she craved, and her
pulse-pounding, soul-searching adventure has already attracted fans
worldwide - a weblog that she kept whilst on her travels was
receiving more than two-thousand hits a day. Her hilarious,
brilliantly written travelog will appeal to anyone who's ever
dreamt of jacking-it-all-in and running away to see the world.
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