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One More Day Everywhere: Crossing 50 Borders on the Road to Global Understanding |  | Author: Glen Heggstad
Publisher: Ecw Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 194550
Media: Paperback
Pages: 280
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 155022882X
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9781550228823
ASIN: 155022882X
Publication Date: November 1, 2009
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Product Description
In 2001, martial arts-trained biker Glen Heggstad began a journey from California to the tip of South America on his motorcycle and made it as far as Colombia, where he was kidnapped by local rebels and held captive. Undeterred by more than a month of traumatic incarceration, the “Striking Viking” finished his trip after being released. Three years later he set out into the world on his bike again, this time searching for truth on his own terms in a world that had become strangled by a climate of fear. Starting his trip in Japan, he traveled through Siberia, Mongolia, Europe, the Middle East, South East Asia, and Africa, stopping in more than 30 countries to deliver his message of the real United States, as he knew it. Unique stories and gritty adventure fill this quest for new sights and insights amongst extreme temperatures, knee-deep mud, bureaucratic roadblocks, health problems, and loneliness.
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Totally satisfying Armchair Adventure. Read this book! November 29, 2009
Bill Watkins (Breckenridge, Texas)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I am a voracious reader. I've read probably 30 books, fiction and non-fiction in the last few months. This book was the most exciting. More than a travelogue, Glen Heggstad is at least an equal to Paul Theroux in describing his encounters with different people in strange places. I pre-ordered the book from Amazon, so I received my copy on the day it was released. It was fascinating reading! The colored photos of his trip were a bonus. I'm also an avid motorcyclist, having ridden at least a quarter of a million miles in my 75 years, covering most of this continent on two wheels. But reading about Glenn's adventures made me wish that I was young again. My son-in-law grabbed the book from me when I finished and my cousin Bob, also a biker, wants to borrow my copy when the son-in-law is finished. I advised them to get their own copy, but they can't wait. So, buy this book. You won't be dissappointed. As a side note, I don't think that Glen would mind if I told you that all royalties are donated to international aid organizations dedicated to building schools in the developing world.
Anthropologist On A Bike November 11, 2009
Daniel Plumer (Tucson, AZ USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am only half way through this book, but I can hardly put it down except to write this review, and I have never before written a review of anything. Glen's writing is so eloquent and descriptive that I feel like I am there with him. His courage and tenacity are beyond amazing, and his zeal for freedom and adventure provides me with authentic excitement and passion even if it is vicarious. He has become my temporary hero, and I look forward to savoring each and every page.
Glen is, in fact, an "anthropologist on a bike", a title for his book that I might have chosen. He is brilliant, and is able to dance with a broad spectrum of human nature, revealing it in the most positive and healthy of ways; ways that generate hope for our world. He is able to let go of the conditioned biases and prejudices that we are all programmed to adopt as we endure the constant fear based interpretations of the media.
If you would like to travel the world to places you will probably never get to experience directly, and if you would like to engage with people through a filter of appreciation, read Glen's book. You will not be disappointed.
Most improved writer! March 21, 2010
Kenneth N. Baker (the bluegrass)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read Glen's earlier book several years back. I kind of had to force myself to continue reading through some parts to get to the good stuff.
What a difference with the new book. The author is humbler and more open than before. He takes chances just to see what's there. His writing is more fluid and less confrontational than the TWTT book.
This one is a keeper. I will read it again next winter!
Just finished reading the book, couldn't put it down! December 30, 2009
Eric Bertram (Chicago, IL)
Having read "Two Wheels Through Terror", I knew I would enjoy this travel book. I couldn't put it down, the writing is excellent, the photos are really beautiful. I'm an avid motorcyclist but you don't have to be a two wheel traveler to appreciate Glen's adventures and how he relates to those he encounters on the road. I hope there's a reality series in the works! Really a brilliant book!
Non-stopper January 19, 2010
Karen K. Mesikapp (Ignacio, CO USA)
This is a book you won't want to put down! Great adventures, written by a great storyteller. It is unfortunate the publisher was not able to include more of the outstanding photographs. Fortunately, the book contains an internet link to more photos, which are really fun to view after reading the book. It lets you compare the pictures you have formed in your mind after reading Glen's vivid descriptions with the actual scenes themselves.
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