Large, sturdy softcover, glossy wrappers colorfully designed with image of a person with bike in sunset on front and back wrappers, 278 pages plus brief biographical note. Very tiny nick at spine bottom left corner. Near Very Fine.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The First Big Ride: An Inspiring Coast-To-Coast Adventure-- A Woman's Journey

Publisher

Cumberland House, Nashville TN

Publication Date

2000

Language

English

ISBN 10

1581821441

ISBN 13

9781581821444

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

First Edition

Condition

Fine

Seller catalogs

Women
Travel

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Synopsis

An Inspiration for Anyone Who Wonders If the Time for Adventure Has Passed

This is the story of a middle-aged businesswoman who left a successful career to see if she could find something more meaningful to do with her life. A noncyclist, Eloise Hanner joined the first Big Ride (sponsored by the American Lung Association), in which more than seven hundred bicycle riders crossed the country from Seattle to Washington, D.C., in the summer of 1998. To Hanner, the ride represented a new beginning fraught with challenges and opportunities.

Starting from zero, she trained for several months to work up to where she could ride and average of more than eighty miles a day. What started as a bicycle odyssey, however, developed into a distilled version of life, where storms became life-threatening and strong friendships formed in days instead of weeks or months.

More than a travelogue, Hanner's account of the inaugural Big Ride is an examination of career and values and what to do with the second half of life―a question asked by many baby boomers as they approach fifty.

About the Author

Eloise Hanner was raised in the small town of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. After several years of working in Afghanistan and Kuwait, she was a stockbroker in San Diego for fifteen years. Hanner and her husband, Chuck, currently live and work in Paraguay.

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