THROTTLE ON

Unstuck on the Way to the Arctic Ocean

What would make someone load an undersized motorcycle and ride 7,000 miles to the Arctic Ocean? Grief, mostly — and the growing suspicion that standing still was killing me faster than the road ever could.

Throttle On is a literary travel memoir about a 15,000-mile solo motorcycle journey from Austin, Texas to the Arctic Ocean and back — through wildfire, isolation, and the slow reckoning with what I’d been riding away from.

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