Book description
By most people's standards, Josie Dew is hugely adventurous. By
American standards, she is completely insane. For Americans drive
everywhere: through cinemas, restaurants, banks, even trees. But driving
past Josie as she pedalled across America was a new and alarming
experience.
On her eight-month journey Josie experienced it all; race riots in Los
Angeles, impossible heat in Death Valley, Sexual Tantric Seminars in
Hawaii. From Utah to the Great Lakes, via improbable places like Zzyzx
and Squaw Tit, her two-wheeled odyssey brought her into contact with all
the wonders and worries of this larger-than-life country.
Highly entertaining, richly informative, TRAVELS IN A STRANGE STATE is
a personal memoir of an improbable journey, revealing the United States
as it is rarely seen - from the seat of a bicycle. Josie has cycled
280,000 miles across 43 countries, some by accident. The survivor of 5
continents, several wonky knees and a handful of worn-out bottom
brackets, she is still firmly fixed in the saddle. WIND IN MY WHEELS was
shortlisted for the 1992 Travel Writer of the Year Award.
