Way to Go

January 15, 2006
The first journey journalist Hill describes in his adventure travelog is a trek through India, Pakistan, Iran, and Turkey that involved corrupt border officials, fleabag hotels, threats of attacks by bandits, and miserable roadways. The second journey, which he undertook atop a new Harley and which spanned all of Rte. 66, from Chicago to L.A., was as different from the first as night and day. Instead of bandits, he discovered fruit pies; crooked cops were replaced by the colorful characters who live along -America's Highway -; and instead of seedy hotels, he found clean, inexpensive lodgings overlooked by drivers whizzing by on the more accessible interstates. What was missing on the second trip, he writes, was the excitement he'd discovered on the first, the sense of adventure that came from never knowing what would happen next. While all readers will enjoy Hill's delightful Irish humor, insight, and narrative skills, fellow motorcyclists will especially understand the freedom and joy he found along every bend in the road. Recommended." -Joseph L. Carlson, Allan Hancock Coll., Lompoc, CA"

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