Tortillas to Totems, Sam Manicom
Tortillas to Totems, Sam Manicom
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Tortillas to Totems
Motorcycling Mexico, the USA & Canada – Side tracked by the Unexpected

Author: Sam Manicom

Narrator: Sam Manicom

Unabridged: 11 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Sam Manicom

Published: 05/02/2017

Categories: Nonfiction, Travel, Adventure


Synopsis

Sam Manicom’s dynamic fourth book is an enticing yet frequently challenging motorcycle journey across the dramatic landscapes of Mexico, the United States and Canada. Sam’s partner Birgit is no longer a novice motorcyclist – riding through southern Africa and South America turned her into a rider capable of facing any challenge. But Sam was worried.As they arrived into North America they had been travelling around the world by motorcycle for six years and he was beginning to think that North America was going to be easy; too easy in fact. Were all the challenges of travel in the developing world countries going to be missing? Sam couldn’t have been more wrong. Samuel Johnson wrote, ‘The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them how they are.’ After all, aren’t these some of the main reasons for going travelling? To experience as many different things and ways of life as possible? To discover new and wonderful things, but also to have preconceived ideas challenged. This true life story has more twists and turns than a Rocky Mountain Pass, and more surprises than anyone could expect. As it did them, at times it could challenge you too. Woven into this surprising story are canyons, cowboys, idyllic beaches, bears, mountains, Californian Vineyards, gun-toting policemen with grudges, glaciers, exploding volcanoes, dodgy border crossings and some of the most stunning open roads that a traveller could ever wish to see.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gunnar

Tortillas to Totems. Sam Manicom and Birgit now end their journey around the world with this fourth book. The book begins in Mexico and via not always so funny police or border guards, but with warm and friendly "ordinary people", the journey goes to the United States "This so familiar" country. Too ex......more

A great finale! This book, as with previous three books, really bring motorcycle travel to life. My own European travels are nowhere near the challenges faced by Sam and Birgit but much of what has been written here applies nonetheless. A great read as are the previous three books.......more

Goodreads review by Dean

Wonderful book I love how you digress a little makes it so interesting If you love the journey of travel you must buy this book If you love motorbikes thats an added bonus.......more

Goodreads review by Ted

Not Sam's best effort The third of his books I have read. Too much anti-American political opinion in the first half. Not enough about travel by motorcycle. Too much wasted time when they could have gotten to Alaska and many other interesting places in the Eastern US. Yes, there are many Americans th......more