{ "item_title" : "A Magnificent Ride to Nowhere", "item_author" : [" G. a. Thompson "], "item_description" : "Another #1 Amazon Bestseller by G.A. Thompson Ranked #1 in Motorcycle Travel on Amazon KindleJust when the reader believes the journey is over, the final pages reveal that this was never just a motorcycle memoir, but a surprisingly gut-wrenching confession about the road he failed to take.A perfect mix of humor and quiet, reflective moments... a character-driven story that feels like a real escape.I thought I was going to die in Vietnam. So I bought a motorcycle and started saying goodbye.It was 1972. I had a draft notice in my pocket and no good reason to believe I'd see thirty. I climbed on a Yamaha 350 and pointed it west toward California, to see my grandparents one more time while I still could.I survived the Army.I kept the motorcycle.What began as a desperate 1,200-mile ride turned into fifty years of riding the American West and beyond, through deserts, mountain passes, lonely highways, breakdowns, friendships, close calls, laughter, grief, and that peculiar kind of freedom that appears when the road ahead is the one thing still asking something of you.In the tradition of Steinbeck's Travels with Charley and the introspective spirit of Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, this is my account of motion, memory, reinvention, and the roads I chose.And the ones I didn't.For decades, motorcycles gave me sanctuary, adventure, and a way to keep moving. What begins as a motorcycle travel memoir gradually becomes something else: a later-life reckoning shaped by the places I rode, the people I loved, and the choices that stay with a man long after the road itself is gone.Somewhere along the way, the machinery starts to fall away.Underneath the miles, there's another journey.A woman I met in a waiting room decades ago.A moment I failed to enter.And a lost love that fifty years of riding never quite managed to outrun.What I set out to write as an adventure memoir became, without my entirely meaning it to, a letter to someone who never knew she was being written to.Part motorcycle travelogue, part philosophical reflection, and part confession I put off far too long, this is my reckoning with the roads not taken and the plain fact that some distances aren't measured in miles.They're measured in moments a man fails to enter.It's also a story about starting over late, about coming back to the road, looking behind me without getting stuck there, and discovering that moving forward and looking back aren't as opposed as I once thought.After a lifetime of putting miles behind me at speed, I found the hardest distance left wasn't on any map.It was the one between what I felt......and what I was willing to say.The road was never really to nowhere.It just took me a lifetime to find out where it was headed....this ride was always for you.The TrilogyA Magnificent Ride to Nowhere opens a three-volume journey of personal discovery. It continues in The Road Inward and concludes with A Bench on the Moon, where I finally say what I was never able to say then.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/824/750/9798247508441_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "19.99", "online_price" : "19.99", "our_price" : "19.99", "club_price" : "19.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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