Lois on the Loose: One Woman, One Motorcycle, 20,000 Miles Across the Americas
Bored by her desk job at the BBC, Pryce decided to convert her travel  daydreams into real-life adventure. At her local travel bookshop, she  discovered a book calledJupiter's Travelsby Ted Simon as well as a few handbooks on motorcycle adventuring, and she was  hooked. She bought a small dirt bike, a versatile and affordable Yamaha XT225  Serow, and decided she'd bike from Anchorage, Alaska, to the southernmost city  of South America, Ushuaia, Argentina—almost 20,000 miles. In this engaging  read, Pryce narrates the adventure. Local bikers helped the witty and sociable  Pryce get her Serow fixed, strangers offered shelter or advice and various  friends joined her, for better or worse. She rode through flaking dried mud and  boulder-strewn donkey paths, through broiling desert heat and blinding Andean  snows. Armchair travelers will delight in this funny, vivid account  and—almost—wish they'd done it themselves. B&w photos throughout.(Mar.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.