num_pages: 300
description: Biking from Oregon to Maine is no small feat especially for two newly retired women who carry everything they need for three months powered only by the strength of their legs and a desire for adventure. Alice Honeywell and Bobbi Montgomery invite readers to follow their ride by bicycle across the United States as they face scorching sun driving rain buffeting winds equipment failures killer hills wild fires and even a plague of grasshoppers. As Alice and Bobbi pedal along their 3600-mile journey they test and deepen their friendship defy their aches and pains experience the vast and varied beauties of their country and discover the challenges and satisfaction of a scaled-down lifestyle. And they encounter unfailing generosity from people they meetfrom the prayers of a North Dakota woman for their safekeeping to the offer of a house in Michigan to invitations for dinner and a place to sleep at stops all along the way. And there are incidents to laugh over too such as the bewildered woman who asked them Well but where do you pack your dresses? Ride along with Alice and Bobbi as they embrace retirement with gusto and live their dream.Winner (Gold Medalist) Travel Essays Foreword Magazine s Books of the Year
language: English
title: Across America by Bicycle: Alice and Bobbi's Summer on Wheels
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press