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BICYCLING AROUND THE WORLD: Tire Tracks For Your Imagination / Everything You Need to Know About Touring

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Okay, you've read every bicycle adventure book on the market in the past 20 years. You've read "Pedaling to the Ends of the Earth" and "Miles from Nowhere." They carried you on long adventures.



But in "Bicycling Around the World," you're going to sweat, laugh and cry right along with Wooldridge as he takes you on the fifty best adventures that have ever happened to a long distance touring cyclist. Once you read the first episode that will startle your senses, you won't be able to stop. Each chapter draws you uncontrollably into the next adventure.



He mesmerizes readers into the astounding world of a long distance touring rider. Personally, I never expected to meet a cobra face to face, but I did in his book. I have never seen a grizzly bear, but I smelled a grizzly's breath in the first chapter. Who would have thought anyone could walk across America on his hands? You'll meet Bob Wieland in the fourth chapter and you will never forget him.



How many cyclists ride for 13 years non stop? Stan is still out there on the road as you read this review. He's living the dream. But he's not alone as the casket man rolls down the highway with his own amazing adventure. He offers secrets that few contemplate.



The raw adventure moments leave you sweating bullets, but then, Wooldridge pulls you into 15,000 foot passes where you're faced with 12 foot condors flying 30 feet off your handlebars. Is there a favorite chapter in this book? That depends! The chapter where he meets a family of penguins in Antarctica on his bicycle must take the cake as the most incredible experience anyone has ever had on a bicycle.



The subtitle to the book is, "Tire Tracks for Your Imagination." What I liked about the cover stems from the fact that he's inside the highest railroad tunnel in the world at 11,000 feet on Corona Pass in the Rocky Mountains. But it could be anyone as it's a black silhouette. It could be you. It could be me.



He even shows readers "How to Live the Dream." His special section: "Everything You Need to Know About Touring" offers sound advice that will start any novice off on the right foot.



Finally, this is one heck of a read for anyone who loves adventure. It carries readers off to six continents and six times across the United States. It inspires hope, engenders enthusiasm and optimism for the future.



Mike Machuga

Denver, Colorado