Miles from Nowhere: another book review about a bicycle adventure :)

Miles from Nowhere, By: Barbara Savage

I have just completed reading the delightful tale of Barbara and Larry, written from Barbara's perspective, of their 2 year and 23,000 mile trek on bicycle around the world. What an incredible tale of adventure. I really felt like I was travelling right along with them and we visited places I've never been and reminisced in travels past.

I came across this book through the previous book I read: http://softpinkpetals.blogspot.com/2013/08/where-pavement-ends-book-report.html
which got the Barbara Savage award and is on "The Mountaineers" list of good reads. After these two books I think I'm onto something and will be having a go at a few other books on this list.

While reading Miles, set from 1979 to 1980, I was thinking I would love to be in touch with the writer, Barbara, to tell her how much I enjoyed her book. Unfortunately on the last page it is revealed that she passed in a bike accident around 3 years after completing her journey. How sad I am for her late husband, whom she sounds very much in love with through her writing.

I am so amazed at the possibility that bicycles offer. A way of seeing the world with minimal fossil fuels wasted and a small eco-footprint. And just the sheer strength of the bicycle. They had many mechanical difficulties of course, but none which they could not fix themselves and were not able to overcome. It is a truly magnificent machine and I am continuing to fall in love with them more every day.

By: Rose