Riding into the Wind

"This book, like the journey which spawned it, is Homeric. It is the stuff of legend. Your journey stands for more. In my mind, it is symbolic of the courage to leave the sheep herd and live FREEDOM to the limits. Your story reminds us all how life CAN be lived. You are inventing a new literary genre. This is a beautifully designed and crafted book, from the unique cover that has the look and feel of the leatherbound diaries these modernday nomads carried with them in their saddlebags. The story is told graphically by seventy-two color photographs of outstanding quality and over forty insightful pencil drawings by Conchita Maria.

Through the kinetic weave of the story line, the reader is able to connect the multiple threads of childhood, student years, the Peace Corps experience in the slums and travels with Rumanian gypsies in Spain with the unfolding odyssey on horseback from Tierra del Fuego to northern British Columbia and with their present life in the Canadian wil