One of my best friends gave me the latest John Irving novel for Christmas, while I’m actually pondering his first. It’s a motorcycle buddy road trip book called Setting Free the Bears with these two young men riding all over Germany, eating radishes, drinking lots of beer and plotting a jail break at the local zoo.
Honestly, […]

Yes, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a road trip book.  It’s all about a father and his son on their motorcycle, riding from the lakes of Minnesota to the mountains in North Dakota, to the red woods in California. But I’ll warn you now, if you ever intend to read it, it’s […]

When I first started talking about this road trip tour with my friends, they all had ideas about books I needed to include. When one of them mentioned Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, I dusted off my copy and vowed to actually read it this time. The lavendar-colored paperback was hiding in the […]