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These are the Days That Must Happen To You

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Dan Walsh may be the most gifted writer of my time. Yes, really. This is an astonishing read of his life as it moved through Africa and the Americas via motorcycle. But this is not simple narrative, not just a good story, not just an adventure or travelog. If he has any fear at all, it is of banality and dishonesty, but not of people, adventure, discovery, and not of being honest about what is driving him.


You have to read this book. You don't have to be a motorcyclist or even a traveller to be moved. But if you're both, it's quite amazing.

Pretty good read but Dan is no fan of the American so if your skin is thin or you are in love with G.W. Bush you may need to be careful. This is probably just me but I ride to get away from politics and stuff like that and he weaves it into the story too much for me. The Days are for sure fun and interesting enough that I can proudly keep it in my moto reading collection. What I really want is to spend the rest of my life on the road like Walsh did for a time.

or an extended adolescence. Peter Pan in the real world smokes, uses nasty words, vomits in public places, suffers despair, knows why good women leave him, and still resents it; acts-out and tries to shrug-off consequences, is horrified as age catches up, is lonely yet rejects consolation. We get to watch, go back to our desks and homes; he's howling at the moon in our place.