Author: Clement Salvadori
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781884313189
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Memorable routes, from sweeping roads high along the coast to lonely byways amidst desert splendor. Includes dual-sport diversions.
Motorcycle Journeys Through California
Author: Clement Salvadori
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781884313189
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Memorable routes, from sweeping roads high along the coast to lonely byways amidst desert splendor. Includes dual-sport diversions.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781884313189
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Memorable routes, from sweeping roads high along the coast to lonely byways amidst desert splendor. Includes dual-sport diversions.
Motorcycle Journeys Through Baja
Author: Clement Salvadori
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781884313080
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Join Clement Salvadori, one of the most popular motorcycle journalists of our day, as he personally leads you on an entertaining tour through Baja. Unlike guidebooks written for others, Salvadori rates every paved and unpaved road as a motorcyclist, giving two- wheeled travellers an honest evaluation of what to expect. All your questions ......
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781884313080
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Join Clement Salvadori, one of the most popular motorcycle journalists of our day, as he personally leads you on an entertaining tour through Baja. Unlike guidebooks written for others, Salvadori rates every paved and unpaved road as a motorcyclist, giving two- wheeled travellers an honest evaluation of what to expect. All your questions ......
Motorcycle Journeys Through California & Baja
Author: Clement Salvadori
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781884313608
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This updated and expanded new edition guides you along some of the lesser-known motorcycling gems in California, as well as pointing the way to the unspoiled places of Mexico's Baja peninsula.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781884313608
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This updated and expanded new edition guides you along some of the lesser-known motorcycling gems in California, as well as pointing the way to the unspoiled places of Mexico's Baja peninsula.
Motorcycle Journeys through the Pacific Northwest
Author: Bruce Hansen
Publisher: Whitehorse Press
ISBN: 9781884313868
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An important update to his very popular first edition, Hansen's enthusiasm for exploration comes through in this full-color, fully-detailed tribute and guide to the great roads of America's Pacific Northwest. Both visitors to the region and lifetime locals will enjoy and learn from the 30+ trips that Hansen has planned and perfected. Designed from top to bottom for motorcyclists, this new second edition includes topographical maps for each trip, specific directions, and tips on the best places to eat, sleep, and visit. Hansen guides motorcyclists through the areas around Seattle and Portland, up and down the coats of Washington, Oregon, and northern California, around the volcanos of Mt. Saint Helens, Mt. Hood, and Mt. Ranier, across the desert of Oregon, out to the San Juan Islands, and over the border into parts of British Columbia. Riders will see everything from the most interesting places in the region's history, to the hills, inlets, islands, and valleys that make the American Northwest a favorite among motorcycle enthusiasts.
Publisher: Whitehorse Press
ISBN: 9781884313868
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An important update to his very popular first edition, Hansen's enthusiasm for exploration comes through in this full-color, fully-detailed tribute and guide to the great roads of America's Pacific Northwest. Both visitors to the region and lifetime locals will enjoy and learn from the 30+ trips that Hansen has planned and perfected. Designed from top to bottom for motorcyclists, this new second edition includes topographical maps for each trip, specific directions, and tips on the best places to eat, sleep, and visit. Hansen guides motorcyclists through the areas around Seattle and Portland, up and down the coats of Washington, Oregon, and northern California, around the volcanos of Mt. Saint Helens, Mt. Hood, and Mt. Ranier, across the desert of Oregon, out to the San Juan Islands, and over the border into parts of British Columbia. Riders will see everything from the most interesting places in the region's history, to the hills, inlets, islands, and valleys that make the American Northwest a favorite among motorcycle enthusiasts.
Motorcycle Touring in the Pacific Northwest
Author: Christy Karras
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762766700
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Forty classic rides through the region’s quintessential scenes * With its spectacular and varied scenes, no other region of America can best the Pacific Northwest when it comes to motorcycle touring—whether a Sunday afternoon ride with friends or a multiday adventure. Now, with Motorcycle Touring in the Pacific Northwest, bikers have an unparalleled guide describing forty classic rides across the quintessential landscapes of Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver/British Columbia—from the rugged Pacific coast to breathtaking islands, from rain forests to deserts, from the Cascades to the Rockies. In friendly prose peppered with anecdotes, sidebars, and interesting asides, Christy Karras and Steve Zusy describe the routes—most representing a day’s worth of riding—and include a map for each, color photographs, and details aplenty on road conditions and terrain, sites worth stopping for, amenities, and side trips.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762766700
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Forty classic rides through the region’s quintessential scenes * With its spectacular and varied scenes, no other region of America can best the Pacific Northwest when it comes to motorcycle touring—whether a Sunday afternoon ride with friends or a multiday adventure. Now, with Motorcycle Touring in the Pacific Northwest, bikers have an unparalleled guide describing forty classic rides across the quintessential landscapes of Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver/British Columbia—from the rugged Pacific coast to breathtaking islands, from rain forests to deserts, from the Cascades to the Rockies. In friendly prose peppered with anecdotes, sidebars, and interesting asides, Christy Karras and Steve Zusy describe the routes—most representing a day’s worth of riding—and include a map for each, color photographs, and details aplenty on road conditions and terrain, sites worth stopping for, amenities, and side trips.
Riding America's Backroads
Author: Roadrunner Motorcycle Touring & Travel
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 9781565234796
Category : Motorcycle touring
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Riding America's Backroads collects a fine assortment of the excellent writing and photography regularly featured in the pages of RoadRUNNER Motorcycle Touring & Travel magazine.
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 9781565234796
Category : Motorcycle touring
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Riding America's Backroads collects a fine assortment of the excellent writing and photography regularly featured in the pages of RoadRUNNER Motorcycle Touring & Travel magazine.
Motorcycle South America
Author: Amie Tornincasa
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781453762998
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mike and Amie met in college and instantly fell in love with each others sense of adventure. Five years later, a few smaller trips down, married, home-owners working 8-5's they decided to leave everything behind and begin a journey that would be more than another vacation. This was to become an accomplishment and experience larger than any other either had done alone: Traveling by motorcycle from San Jose, California to the end of the world, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. With limited information published on the subject, the couple decided to document their entire journey over five months covering nearly 20,000 miles. Written in diary format, completely unedited and taken directly from their travelogue, the story is a real-time play by play account. This book can help prepare anyone who is interested in planning a similar adventure. In these pages you will find the daily log, tips on gear and motorcycles, lessons learned, and the detailed route. Each day is documented by either Mike or Amie with invaluable information for the traveler, and unfolds a story worthy of being called an adventure of a lifetime. The second edition is expanded with photos, additional FAQ and grammatical edits.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781453762998
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mike and Amie met in college and instantly fell in love with each others sense of adventure. Five years later, a few smaller trips down, married, home-owners working 8-5's they decided to leave everything behind and begin a journey that would be more than another vacation. This was to become an accomplishment and experience larger than any other either had done alone: Traveling by motorcycle from San Jose, California to the end of the world, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. With limited information published on the subject, the couple decided to document their entire journey over five months covering nearly 20,000 miles. Written in diary format, completely unedited and taken directly from their travelogue, the story is a real-time play by play account. This book can help prepare anyone who is interested in planning a similar adventure. In these pages you will find the daily log, tips on gear and motorcycles, lessons learned, and the detailed route. Each day is documented by either Mike or Amie with invaluable information for the traveler, and unfolds a story worthy of being called an adventure of a lifetime. The second edition is expanded with photos, additional FAQ and grammatical edits.
101 Road Tales
Author: Clement Salvadori
Publisher: Whitehorse Press
ISBN: 9781884313738
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Popular motojournalist Clement Salvadori has been sharing his stories from the road with the readers of Rider magazine since 1988. Now, 101 of those engaging Road Tales have been brought together in one book, cleverly illustrated by his long-time friend Gary Brown. Salvadori loves to travel by motorcycle and loves to write. His combining the two has given him a thoroughly satisfactory life, and his contentment and joy of living shine through this collection of columns from the past two decades. Though he does admit to being destination-oriented at times, many of his columns focus on the little things that make the journey itself the most memorable -- the rhythm of the road, the music of the bike, the beauty of the ride, and the exhilaration of being at one with the bike and the road. Meet some of the characters he has encountered, laugh with him at some of his blunders, and join him for bread, cheese, wine, and a stupendous vista somewhere away from the hustle and bustle of humanity.
Publisher: Whitehorse Press
ISBN: 9781884313738
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Popular motojournalist Clement Salvadori has been sharing his stories from the road with the readers of Rider magazine since 1988. Now, 101 of those engaging Road Tales have been brought together in one book, cleverly illustrated by his long-time friend Gary Brown. Salvadori loves to travel by motorcycle and loves to write. His combining the two has given him a thoroughly satisfactory life, and his contentment and joy of living shine through this collection of columns from the past two decades. Though he does admit to being destination-oriented at times, many of his columns focus on the little things that make the journey itself the most memorable -- the rhythm of the road, the music of the bike, the beauty of the ride, and the exhilaration of being at one with the bike and the road. Meet some of the characters he has encountered, laugh with him at some of his blunders, and join him for bread, cheese, wine, and a stupendous vista somewhere away from the hustle and bustle of humanity.
Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility
Author: Patricia Santana
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826324371
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
It's April 1969, and fourteen-year-old Yolanda Sahagún can hardly wait to see her favorite brother, Chuy, newly returned from Vietnam. But when he arrives at the Welcome Home party the family has prepared in his honor it's clear that the war has changed him. The transformation of Chuy is only one of the challenges that Yolanda and the rest of her family face. This powerful coming-of-age novel, winner of the 1999 Chicano/Latino Literary Contest, is a touching and funny account of a summer that is still remembered as a crossroads in American life. Yolanda and her brothers and sisters learn how to be men and women and how to be Americans as well as Mexican Americans. "A captivating portrayal . . . .the novel is challenging, warm, provocative, often humorous, always engaging."--Rudolfo Anaya "Patricia Santana's Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquillity will take you on an exhilarating journey through the tortured landscape of the late 1960s, and show you how the stench of a brutal foreign war and revolutionary winds at home swept into the lives on one Mexican American family in Southern California. . . . Santana takes her place among those new Chicana writers who are refashioning the face of American literature for the twenty-first century."--Jorge Mariscal, University of California, San Diego, author of Aztlan and Viet Nam: Chicano and Chicana Experiences of the War
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826324371
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
It's April 1969, and fourteen-year-old Yolanda Sahagún can hardly wait to see her favorite brother, Chuy, newly returned from Vietnam. But when he arrives at the Welcome Home party the family has prepared in his honor it's clear that the war has changed him. The transformation of Chuy is only one of the challenges that Yolanda and the rest of her family face. This powerful coming-of-age novel, winner of the 1999 Chicano/Latino Literary Contest, is a touching and funny account of a summer that is still remembered as a crossroads in American life. Yolanda and her brothers and sisters learn how to be men and women and how to be Americans as well as Mexican Americans. "A captivating portrayal . . . .the novel is challenging, warm, provocative, often humorous, always engaging."--Rudolfo Anaya "Patricia Santana's Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquillity will take you on an exhilarating journey through the tortured landscape of the late 1960s, and show you how the stench of a brutal foreign war and revolutionary winds at home swept into the lives on one Mexican American family in Southern California. . . . Santana takes her place among those new Chicana writers who are refashioning the face of American literature for the twenty-first century."--Jorge Mariscal, University of California, San Diego, author of Aztlan and Viet Nam: Chicano and Chicana Experiences of the War
Across America by Motor-cycle
Author: C. K. Shepherd
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Across America by Motor-cycle" by C. K. Shepherd. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Across America by Motor-cycle" by C. K. Shepherd. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.