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Going
Home: A Solo Voyage through North America
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This book is about an
extended boat trip. Over a four year period, in the mountains of
Utah, Spike built a small river boat in his backyard. Then he
launched it in a Wyoming stream and voyaged alone across the United
States and Canada using rivers. After reaching Chicago, he passed
through the Great Lakes and down the St. Lawrence River. By the
end of that second summer season, he had covered four thousand miles on
rivers and lakes and a thousand miles on open ocean waters. In
September of 2006, he reached Prince Edward Island and stored the boat
there. Then he carried on by bicycle through Nova Scotia and down
into New England. In the end, he reached his childhood home, a
rural retreat next to a lake in central New Hampshire, a place to which
he had not returned in over three decades. This is the story of
his adventure.
Caution: when you open
this .pdf file, the first couple of pages are blank, so please scroll
down a bit to find the text.
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| Stalking Youth
and Women in the European Outback |
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Late in the spring of
2003, Spike took a
seven week trip to Europe. He spent half the time cycling alone
around
the island of Corsica and the other half visiting an Internet
girlfriend in the Russian Caucasus. This curious adventure is the
subject of a travel book replete with oddball adventures and demented
philosophy. Spike wrote the book each day as he travelled and
finished
it as his airline flight home landed back in Salt Lake City. You
can
read the book by clicking on the image to the right. It will
bring up
the galley that has been used by AuthorHouse to print the book.
The
image is, in fact, the book cover. You can order it by going to
www.authorhouse.com.
Caution: when you open
this .pdf file, the first couple of pages are blank, so please scroll
down a bit to find the text.
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| In December
of 2003, Spike
took a two-week trip to Costa Rica where he cycled alone through the
area around Lake Arenal and along the coast of Guanacaste. In
this
very short book he records his impressions of the country and
speculates about the character of Costa Ricans as well as the mindset
of the many expatriates who live there. The book is also an
introspective examination of what motivates a loner. |
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