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    Ten For The Road -- Motorcycle, Travel and Adventure Stories: Ten For The Road, #1
    Ten For The Road -- Motorcycle, Travel and Adventure Stories: Ten For The Road, #1
    Ten For The Road -- Motorcycle, Travel and Adventure Stories: Ten For The Road, #1
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    Ten For The Road -- Motorcycle, Travel and Adventure Stories: Ten For The Road, #1

    By Brian R. Salisbury

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    Ten for the Road gives you a mix of travel and adventure stories and observations drawn from my many years of motorcycle jaunts throughout the United States and Canada to popular destinations and rides down roads less traveled.

    Even if you don't ride a motorcycle, you'll finds plenty of travel information, adventure stories and lots more to enjoy in this book.

    Experience with me…
    Visit Woodstock decades after the summer of 1969…

    View Bannerman Castle on the Hudson River…

    Travel to the mysterious Anasazi cliff dwellings…

    See the spectral "Rock with wings" on the prairie…

    Ride the beautiful, risky Million Dollar Highway…

    Be thankful for the help of strangers when traveling…

    Explore remote ice caves in the Catskills…

    Attempt to ride 1,000 miles in 24 hours…

    Decide if I saw a ghost during my night ride across Maine…

    Endure the original dirt and gravel Alaska Highway.
     
    In addition to enjoying these stories, perhaps you'll get the urge to sample some of the places I've visited.

    I'd like you to benefit from -- and enjoy -- my experiences.
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrian R. Salisbury
    Release dateJul 10, 2014
    ISBN9781501470417
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      Ten For The Road -- Motorcycle, Travel and Adventure Stories - Brian R. Salisbury

      Introduction

      An accidental hippie returns to Woodstock

      Bannerman Castle—a Scottish fortress on the Hudson

      The mysterious Anasazi cliff dwellings

      Earning my first Iron Butt certificate

      Experiencing the Million Dollar Highway

      Exploring the ice caves at Sam’s Point

      Motorcycle touring and the kindness of strangers

      Shiprock Peak – A Gothic cathedral on the prairie

      Night ride across Maine

      North to Alaska

      About the Author

      Books by Brian R. Salisbury

      Go here for the right gear for you and your bike

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      Introduction

      Ten for the Road offers you a mix of travel and adventure stories and observations drawn from my many years of motorcycle jaunts throughout the United States and Canada. Join me for trips to popular destinations and rides down roads less traveled.

      This is the first book in my ...for the Road series of motorcycle adventure and travel stories and observations from the open road. You can find a description of the second and third books— Another Ten for the Road and Ten More for the Road —on my website.

      When you're on the road, every mile offers a unique experience in its own right...and sometimes more so when encountered on a motorcycle. The feel of the ride becomes part of your memories...as much as the landscape and the people you meet along the way.

      Shortly after I’d gotten my first motorcycle, I discovered the enjoyment of touring and travel. Before I'd take off on each new adventure, my father—who once rode a motorcycle himself—would say, Take a second look for me.  And I always did because I wanted to tell him what I saw and what happened along the way.

      I still travel with the idea of looking twice so I can tell others what made each ride and destination—such as the ten I've included here—special. Experience them with me...

      *  Visit Woodstock decades after the summer of 1969...

      *  View Bannerman Castle on the Hudson River...

      *  Travel to the mysterious Anasazi cliff dwellings...

      *  See the spectral Rock with wings on the prairie...

      *  Ride the beautiful, risky Million Dollar Highway...

      *  Be thankful for the help of strangers when traveling...

      *  Explore remote ice caves in the Catskills...

      *  Attempt to cover 1,000 miles in 24 hours...

      *  Decide if I saw a ghost during a night ride across Maine...

      *  Endure the original dirt and gravel Alaska Highway... 

      In addition to enjoying these stories, perhaps you'll also gain practical knowledge you can use to visit these same places. I hope you'll benefit from my experience.

      *  *  *

      And for lots of information to help you get the greatest enjoyment out of motorcycle riding and travel, please visit my website at...

      www.motorcycle-gear-and-riding-info.com

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      An accidental hippie returns to Woodstock

      During the summer of 1969, my friend Ken and I, along with Ken’s girlfriend and her roommate from college, spent a hot August night under an abandoned chicken coop in the wilds upstate New York.

      While the coop sheltered us from the pouring rain, the essence of chicken permeated everything around us, and the mosquitoes buzzing next to our ears made sleep almost impossible.

      Many times that night I thought: What the heck are we doing here?

      I still don’t have a good answer. But, looking back through the prism of time, I’m glad we endured the discomfort.

      The rain finally stopped and the morning sun climbed over the trees. We left our fragrant lodgings and walked about five miles to a vast, muddy alfalfa field. And there we joined 450,000 others to experience firsthand the phenomenon now known simply as Woodstock.

      The event became the icon of an era and a generation. But at the time it was simply a disorganized happening wrapped in music and, for many, marinated with drugs.

      How it started...for us

      Months earlier, Ken convinced me to pitch in with him and the two ladies to attend part of the four-day-long Woodstock Music and Art Fair to be held in the small town of Bethel, New York—population 2,366. None of us was even slightly into the hippie scene. Somehow, we assumed this would be an artsy gathering.

      That was a big mistake.

      A bit of trivia: The event’s promoters wanted to draw on the singer Bob Dylan’s aura by naming the August 15-17 concert after Dylan’s hip little hometown of Woodstock, located 70 miles northeast of Bethel. Over the years, Woodstock, the town, has capitalized more on the promoters’ original marketing ploy and the nostalgia surrounding the Woodstock Generation than has Bethel—were the epic happening actually took place.

      When the Woodstock weekend finally

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