After being fired, breaking up with her girlfriend, and losing her mother Schoichet is understandably, if a bit dangerously, depressed. Only a motorcycle provides a glimmer of excitement, and probably also a death wish. Schoichet gets her license, buys a gently used bike online, and rides it home to LA from New York. This is a memoir of an emotional state, not quite the travel story I hoped for. Healing is right in the title though, so it’s not false advertising. And no story of recovery would have as many details of motorcycle riding found here. There are plenty of fun (and poignant) stops along the way it so it satisfies a travel craving. The story isn’t as linear, or even coherent, as it could be - perhaps due to high emotion, perhaps because it was written after the trip with no saved photos or notes. It was engaging enough to read through quite quickly though.
Traveling from New York to Gettysburg, down the Blue Ridge Parkway, stopping at Graceland, into Arkansas with some personal and touristy stops across the Southwest. Covers much more than 500 miles.
by Barbara Schoichet
3 stars
After being fired, breaking up with her girlfriend, and losing her mother Schoichet is understandably, if a bit dangerously, depressed. Only a motorcycle provides a glimmer of excitement, and probably also a death wish. Schoichet gets her license, buys a gently used bike online, and rides it home to LA from New York.
This is a memoir of an emotional state, not quite the travel story I hoped for. Healing is right in the title though, so it’s not false advertising. And no story of recovery would have as many details of motorcycle riding found here. There are plenty of fun (and poignant) stops along the way it so it satisfies a travel craving. The story isn’t as linear, or even coherent, as it could be - perhaps due to high emotion, perhaps because it was written after the trip with no saved photos or notes. It was engaging enough to read through quite quickly though.
Traveling from New York to Gettysburg, down the Blue Ridge Parkway, stopping at Graceland, into Arkansas with some personal and touristy stops across the Southwest. Covers much more than 500 miles.