OR, THE EUROPEAN MISADVENTURES OF AN INCURABLE ROMANTIC
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I was waiting impatiently in a gas station nestled in the foothills of the Catalan Pyrenees, blood welling and dripping down my face, my wrist swollen and in all likelihood broken, nearly every part of my body aching, no gas in my motorcycle and no money to buy more, with my computer perched on a snack stand while I answered an urgent email pertaining to my infant startup. |
Follow the real-life adventures of a young dreamer as he books a one-way ticket to Spain and rides a rickety motorcycle across Europe in a meandering, simultaneous search for a great love he once lost and a life lived on his own terms. Part meditation on the role travel plays as a source of identity and inspiration, this raw yet entertaining account of a journey across four countries careens from one misadventure to the next: the bureaucratic hell of the Spanish DMV, a robbery in a crumbling castle, a dangerously failing motorcycle, romances gone wrong, an inopportunely snowed-in mountain pass, and more.
Yet surreal, beautiful encounters lie just beyond each misfortune, culminating in the most bizarre of experiences: spiritual rebirth in a South American sweat lodge ritual performed in the boondocks of Spain in the most unlikely company. In the ups and downs of his misadventures, he learns the power of both chasing one's dreams and letting them go.
Yet surreal, beautiful encounters lie just beyond each misfortune, culminating in the most bizarre of experiences: spiritual rebirth in a South American sweat lodge ritual performed in the boondocks of Spain in the most unlikely company. In the ups and downs of his misadventures, he learns the power of both chasing one's dreams and letting them go.
