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Odyssey Of The Open Road - cover

Odyssey Of The Open Road

Nelson H. Grau

Publisher: BooxAi

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There are times in this life when a near-death experience causes a person to pause and look back over the years, to consider the moments that have meant the most in this life. For the author, these were the years spent answering the sirens-call to a life on the road, of leaving hearth-and-home to live out of a big rig and become part of the fabric of the trucking culture of this great land. Follow the author down the highways and byways of our country as he attempts to explain the unexplainable: just what it is that motivates a person to sell-out to a life spent in perpetual motion; to the never-ending pursuit of the white line as the years roll away beneath their wheels. Of grizzled veterans who have sold-out to the life amidst the loss of so much on the home front. Of a man who possesses two homes, his truck and a sailboat, who lives the life of a virtual hermit-in-plain-sight. Read of a man with the means to pursue any life he may desire yet has chosen to chase a fading sunset into the western sky in a dressed-out Western Star. There are the tales of storms fought, of danger survived, and the never-ending pursuit of the revenue necessary to keep the wheels in motion. But so much more than any of this, is the encounter each of these road-warriors has with the mistress called the highway. Of the sirens-call she sends out to the chosen few that will pull them away from a staid existence; from a warm bed, a steady nine-to-five, and a life that is predictable to an extreme these men and women find they can no longer abide. Come along for the ride, it will be worth your time. And listen if you will for the call-of-the-road. She might just be speaking your name!
Available since: 02/08/2024.

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