- Paperback: 143 pages
- Publisher: Coda Pubns; 1 edition (January 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0910390401
- ISBN-13: 978-0910390408
- Product Dimensions: 27.4 x 21.3 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
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- #58 in Books > Travel > Latin America > Central America > Panama
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It was December 14, and 970 miles from Los Angeles, when I paid a dime to ride over the El Paso, Texas, toll bridge into Mexico's Ciudad Juarez border control station. Read the first page
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Escapade, May 1 2012
By Delores Hanney - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Two Wheels to Panama (Paperback)
EscapadeHis life was a mess so William Carroll decided to run away from it all to have himself an adventure. And, ooooo, what an adventure it was!
Tricked out in a military surplus aviator's jumpsuit and a fur-lined leather jacket while riding atop a 500cc BSA motorcycle, it was five months and 7,772 miles long, beginning in Los Angeles and ending at the Panama Canal.
He traveled over the often-nonexistent La Carretera Interamericana (the Interamerican Highway), to bask in countries and cultures which previously held no fascination for Carroll, but where, after crossing into Mexico, his lack of a grasp on Spanish benefited from an immediate plunge into the immersion method of language-learning, and association filled him with an admiration and appreciation for the people.
His optimism for the enterprise was exceeded only by the kindness of strangers, who repeatedly rushed forth to rescue him from whatever difficulty he was mired in at the moment - usually a river too deep or rocky-bottomed for the motorcycle to make it's way out of the middle. When all else failed, the bike was loaded onto a motor launch or a train, to keep him pootling along the route of his itinerary - such as it was - and the inviting serendipitous attention-grabbers he happened upon on the way.
He stopped for holy day festivals, jungle enclosed shrines, native markets where "orderly confusion" was the hallmark, ginormous banana plantations. A street race between Carroll and a Harley-mounted policeman detained him momentarily; a shooting match with a sore-losing military officer did too. He played and partied. Then it was on to the next border crossing for passport-stamping and paperwork minutiae.
This book, Carroll reports, is a serious condensation of his notes and journals from that trip. Written in his appealing prose distinguished by a certain jaunty swagger, it is illustrated with an awesome collection of his own delicious black and white photographs.
I keep it at my bedside for random submergence.
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