Can't Recommend Highly Enough
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'These Are The Days That Must Happen To You' chronicles two epic bike journeys undertaken by journalist/thinker/hellraiser Dan Walsh: firstly a trip the length of the African continent to Cape Town and a second journey from Canada down to Buenos Aires in South America. Although much of the book's content has previously appeared in Bike magazine, this shouldn't stop you buying this fantastic book.
For those of us that harbour dreams of The Big Bike Trip, Dan is an inspiration. He stopped dreaming and got on and did it. And how. The writing often manages to be incredibly moving and yet laugh out loud funy on the same page. We follow the author in his journeys through incredible landscapes, break-downs, run-ins with the law, run-ins with border guards and encounters in countless bars across the continents.
Buy this book.
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Excellent but be warned...
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If you've read Dan's writings in Bike magazine, you'll know how "colourful" it can be. If you enjoyed his writing enough to be thinking of buying this book then you, like me, forgive him for offending (everyone eventually!) and probably admire his honesty.
I'd have given this book five stars but for two things - the subjects of the warnings in my review title:
1. If you've read Dan in Bike magazine - you've read the book. I'll be getting rid of the mags (one day) but the book will remain and be read more than once!
2. You may not want your teenage kids reading it. They may (?!) learn things you'd rather they didn't and they might like the sound of them.
However, warnings aside, a great read from an inspiring character.
Dan, if you;re reading this - keep riding and writing till you find what you're looking for. Then write about that too :-)
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Only Dan tells it like it is
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If you want to get an honest feeling of what riding a bike is like for normal people, not superhuman daredevils, this is the book for you. His insight into the countries he visits, the people he meets, teaches you more than any travel guide or history book. Since getting this I havent been able to put it down. He is selfish, dumb at times, ignorant, all the things real people are and this book reflects its.
For those of us who will never snort cocaine with a prostitute in South America this is good way of finding out what it feels like and more importantly how you end up in that state in the first place.
Sit back, enjoy and start questioning your own priorities.
Have fun and keep drifting
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AT LAST !!
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dont hesitate, thinking of expense, other titles or wonder if this will be the same old bike travel pages as always, its not !..... just get this book now ! move over, all the rest ! senor Walsh is here at last, in one sharp block of perfection !
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