"You Can't Ride a Bicycle to Alaska. It's an Island!"

"You'll never make it! "With encouragement like that, novice bicycle tourist Mickey Thomas, in a fit of youthful testosterone, and meticulous inattention to detail, embarked on a one-in-a lifetime 3,400 mile bicycle trip from Montana to Alaska. While navigating knee problems, homesickness, bad weather, and the mental and physical endurance required to finish the trip, Mickey and his group rode over some of the roughest roads and most beautifully desolate scenery in North America. Along the way, he discovers an inner strength he never knew he had. The book is laugh-out-loud funny, as well as an affirmation of the human spirit on the way to the last great North American wilderness. Mickey Thomas lives in North Carolina with his wife Jennifer. He still rides... though not as far...