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A Fast Bike to Byzantium
The year is 1986. The destination is Istanbul. No smartphones, no GPS, no Google maps, and not an ounce of common sense.
Dead horses, armed border guards and furious Slavs stand in the way. Join Andy on his battered old Suzuki GS1000G as we cross Europe, and ride together through the Iron Curtain to reach the very edge of Asia. Filled with adventure and humor, poignant and accidentally informative, this true-life story tells of travel in an era long gone, when we read paper maps like pirates on the high seas, and friends were made and lost along roads less traveled.
Can Andy prevail and avoid a Hungarian prison cell and a Yugoslavian beating, to finally reach the sounds and scents of the ancient heart of the Byzantium empire.
◆◆◆ Buy a copy today to find out ◆◆◆
Dead horses, armed border guards and furious Slavs stand in the way. Join Andy on his battered old Suzuki GS1000G as we cross Europe, and ride together through the Iron Curtain to reach the very edge of Asia. Filled with adventure and humor, poignant and accidentally informative, this true-life story tells of travel in an era long gone, when we read paper maps like pirates on the high seas, and friends were made and lost along roads less traveled.
Can Andy prevail and avoid a Hungarian prison cell and a Yugoslavian beating, to finally reach the sounds and scents of the ancient heart of the Byzantium empire.
◆◆◆ Buy a copy today to find out ◆◆◆
A Fast Bike to North Cape
The year is 1989. The destination is North Cape, far inside the Arctic Circle. An era of travel without smartphones, GPS, Google maps, and still not an ounce of common sense.
Andy has swapped his battered old Suzuki for a spanking new Kawasaki GPZ1000RX. Let's ride together as we cross fjords, frozen tundra and high mountain passes to reach the most northern point of Europe. Witty, poignant and accidentally informative, the story tells of travel in a time long gone, when we read paper maps like pirates on the high seas, and friends were made and lost along roads less traveled.
Can Andy prevail to survive the rough seas, violent storms, killer mosquitos, and racing camels to reach his destination?
★★★ Buy a copy today to find out ★★★
Andy has swapped his battered old Suzuki for a spanking new Kawasaki GPZ1000RX. Let's ride together as we cross fjords, frozen tundra and high mountain passes to reach the most northern point of Europe. Witty, poignant and accidentally informative, the story tells of travel in a time long gone, when we read paper maps like pirates on the high seas, and friends were made and lost along roads less traveled.
Can Andy prevail to survive the rough seas, violent storms, killer mosquitos, and racing camels to reach his destination?
★★★ Buy a copy today to find out ★★★
A Fast Bike to Everywhere Else
Still patiently waiting for the invention of the mobile phone, GPS, Google maps and common sense, in book three of the series, Andy has a veritable Tour de Farce of the UK and Europe on four very different journeys taken on three very different motorcycles.
Filled with madcap adventure and humor, this true-life story tells of travel in an era long gone, when we read paper maps like pirates on the high seas, and friends were made and lost along roads less traveled.
For armchair adventurers who like their travels with a twist of disaster, Andy's misguided misadventures deliver the usual laughs on the highway to hell. It's a cautionary tale told by one of the most hapless wanderers.
★★★ Buy your copy today ★★★
Filled with madcap adventure and humor, this true-life story tells of travel in an era long gone, when we read paper maps like pirates on the high seas, and friends were made and lost along roads less traveled.
For armchair adventurers who like their travels with a twist of disaster, Andy's misguided misadventures deliver the usual laughs on the highway to hell. It's a cautionary tale told by one of the most hapless wanderers.
★★★ Buy your copy today ★★★
The Fast Bike Adventures
This anthology brings together books one, two and three in the Petrolhead Travelogue series including:
"A Fast Bike to Byzantium"
"A Fast Bike to North Cape"
"A fast Bike to Everywhere Else"
It is the 1980s. An era of no smartphones, no GPS, no Google maps, and, at least for Andy, not a single ounce of common sense.
All three true-life motorcycle adventure stories are filled with daring-dos and humor. Told with a poignancy for the times and all accidentally informative, each tale tells of travel in an era long gone, when we read paper maps like pirates on the high seas, and friends were made and lost along roads less traveled.
Buy a copy today.
"A Fast Bike to Byzantium"
"A Fast Bike to North Cape"
"A fast Bike to Everywhere Else"
It is the 1980s. An era of no smartphones, no GPS, no Google maps, and, at least for Andy, not a single ounce of common sense.
All three true-life motorcycle adventure stories are filled with daring-dos and humor. Told with a poignancy for the times and all accidentally informative, each tale tells of travel in an era long gone, when we read paper maps like pirates on the high seas, and friends were made and lost along roads less traveled.
Buy a copy today.
We're On Our Way USA
Trading tea and crumpets for coffee and donuts — what could possibly go wrong?
It’s a dream for many, but have you ever really wondered what it’s like to pick up your entire life and move to another country? Maybe you should pause for a moment and read this funny yet poignant true story first.
In book one of his witty and insightful travelogue series, Andy chronicles his family’s move from grey, rainy England to hot and steamy Atlanta. He transports his wife, two kids, two dubious dogs and one very unhappy cat 4,000 miles across the pond. Through laugh-out-loud anecdotes and hard-won wisdom, Andy shares the thrilling highs, frustrating lows, and daunting challenges of uprooting your entire life to start over in a strange land.
Did a new life in the USA work out for the family? Buy a copy today to find out.
It’s a dream for many, but have you ever really wondered what it’s like to pick up your entire life and move to another country? Maybe you should pause for a moment and read this funny yet poignant true story first.
In book one of his witty and insightful travelogue series, Andy chronicles his family’s move from grey, rainy England to hot and steamy Atlanta. He transports his wife, two kids, two dubious dogs and one very unhappy cat 4,000 miles across the pond. Through laugh-out-loud anecdotes and hard-won wisdom, Andy shares the thrilling highs, frustrating lows, and daunting challenges of uprooting your entire life to start over in a strange land.
Did a new life in the USA work out for the family? Buy a copy today to find out.
Mistakes Were Made
2020 turned out to be a year most of the world would spend in pajamas. And that’s what we should have done!!
In this charming, witty, and occasionally wistful tale of a dream pursued, Andy provides an honest and earnest recount of his family’s journey from the United States to the Mediterranean idyll of Spain, all amidst the deadliest global pandemic since 1918.
Jump in the hottest and most unreliable car on the planet with Andy, his wife Paula, their (occasionally) wayward son Adam and their two increasingly long-suffering pups Archie and Pi as they react to the changing whims of international governments, virus hotspots and quarantine zones in their very personal battle to reach their dream villa in the sun splashed paradise of Spain.
As the family make ever increasingly knee-jerk decisions, will they keep their dream alive and family safe?
In this charming, witty, and occasionally wistful tale of a dream pursued, Andy provides an honest and earnest recount of his family’s journey from the United States to the Mediterranean idyll of Spain, all amidst the deadliest global pandemic since 1918.
Jump in the hottest and most unreliable car on the planet with Andy, his wife Paula, their (occasionally) wayward son Adam and their two increasingly long-suffering pups Archie and Pi as they react to the changing whims of international governments, virus hotspots and quarantine zones in their very personal battle to reach their dream villa in the sun splashed paradise of Spain.
As the family make ever increasingly knee-jerk decisions, will they keep their dream alive and family safe?
It's Not As Bad As It Looks
“Wait—What? You are where now?”
This is the phrase that has come to haunt Andy, his long-suffering wife, and their travel weary pups, as Andy continues the story begun in “Mistakes were Made.” In this funny, whimsical, and sometimes accidentally informative tale, the couple return to the USA, after initially ending up in England when their attempt at a dream life in Spain goes awry.
What follows is a maelstrom of unexpected travel and mayhem. Houses are bought and sold, lives and belongings are piled into planes, trains and cars, all too small to contain them, as the family desperately searches for the place they belong.
Their long-suffering puppies, Pi and Archie, now have more air miles than Richard Branson and Tom Cruise combined, and all they want is to wake up in their little beds, in the same country for more than three weeks in a row.
It does seem unlikely, I grant you that, but has the grass finally had a chance to grow under travel weary feet and furry paws?
★★★ Buy a copy today to find out ★★★
This is the phrase that has come to haunt Andy, his long-suffering wife, and their travel weary pups, as Andy continues the story begun in “Mistakes were Made.” In this funny, whimsical, and sometimes accidentally informative tale, the couple return to the USA, after initially ending up in England when their attempt at a dream life in Spain goes awry.
What follows is a maelstrom of unexpected travel and mayhem. Houses are bought and sold, lives and belongings are piled into planes, trains and cars, all too small to contain them, as the family desperately searches for the place they belong.
Their long-suffering puppies, Pi and Archie, now have more air miles than Richard Branson and Tom Cruise combined, and all they want is to wake up in their little beds, in the same country for more than three weeks in a row.
It does seem unlikely, I grant you that, but has the grass finally had a chance to grow under travel weary feet and furry paws?
★★★ Buy a copy today to find out ★★★
The Dog-Eared Travelogues
The Dog Eared Travelogues brings together books one, two, and three in the bestselling Tailspin Travelogue series:
"We're On Our Way USA"
"Mistakes Were Made"
"It's not as bad as it looks"
In this charming, witty, oddly informative, and occasionally wistful omnibus, Andy provides an honest and earnest recount of his family’s journey from the United Kingdom to the United States, and later to Spain and back again.
"We're On Our Way USA"
"Mistakes Were Made"
"It's not as bad as it looks"
In this charming, witty, oddly informative, and occasionally wistful omnibus, Andy provides an honest and earnest recount of his family’s journey from the United Kingdom to the United States, and later to Spain and back again.
The Haunting of Edgar Allan Poe
A chilling thriller inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious final days.
When Edgar Allan Poe is found, delirious and wearing a stranger’s clothes, Dr. Joseph Snodgrass rushes to his friend’s aid. But what begins as an act of kindness plunges Snodgrass into a sinister world of demons and darkness.
Poe has vanished for five days. Now hunters are gathering—violent souls who believe Poe possesses something they crave. As they converge on Baltimore and New York City, Snodgrass is swept into a perilous pursuit. The fate of humanity hangs in the balance, and only Snodgrass can uncover the truth to save his friend and the world from a grim destiny.
This inventive reimagining twists the details of Poe’s last hours into a terrifying supernatural tale. In the gaslit shadows of 19th-century America, evil forces are at work, and deception is around every corner. Will Snodgrass solve the mystery in time, or will darkness prevail? Discover the chilling secrets behind Poe’s final mystery in this imaginative horror-thriller.
The truth is far more frightening than fiction.
When Edgar Allan Poe is found, delirious and wearing a stranger’s clothes, Dr. Joseph Snodgrass rushes to his friend’s aid. But what begins as an act of kindness plunges Snodgrass into a sinister world of demons and darkness.
Poe has vanished for five days. Now hunters are gathering—violent souls who believe Poe possesses something they crave. As they converge on Baltimore and New York City, Snodgrass is swept into a perilous pursuit. The fate of humanity hangs in the balance, and only Snodgrass can uncover the truth to save his friend and the world from a grim destiny.
This inventive reimagining twists the details of Poe’s last hours into a terrifying supernatural tale. In the gaslit shadows of 19th-century America, evil forces are at work, and deception is around every corner. Will Snodgrass solve the mystery in time, or will darkness prevail? Discover the chilling secrets behind Poe’s final mystery in this imaginative horror-thriller.
The truth is far more frightening than fiction.
The Matakite Paradox
One heroine, abandoned and alone. The future of humanity stands on a precipice. Only River’s brilliant mind holds the secret to its survival, but she has unknowingly concealed the answer, buried deep within a prophecy she refuses to embrace—and time is fast running out.
In a world ravaged by antimicrobial resistant disease, a new power, the Rangatiratanga, the Absolute Sovereignty of New Zealand has risen to a violent and deadly prominence. A technological revolution, inspired by the brittle friction between ancient Māori folklore and quantum physics, has led to the creation of the Galaxy fleet. Three great Galaxy Cruisers have departed for three distant exomoons, but the expedition appears doomed to fail, the ships destroyed one by one by a mysterious peril.
Can River finally become Matakite, in time to untangle the ancient mythology and mystery of her mind? Only by doing so can she reach across the unimaginable chasm of space and time to save what remains of the fleet and secure the survival of her species.
In a world ravaged by antimicrobial resistant disease, a new power, the Rangatiratanga, the Absolute Sovereignty of New Zealand has risen to a violent and deadly prominence. A technological revolution, inspired by the brittle friction between ancient Māori folklore and quantum physics, has led to the creation of the Galaxy fleet. Three great Galaxy Cruisers have departed for three distant exomoons, but the expedition appears doomed to fail, the ships destroyed one by one by a mysterious peril.
Can River finally become Matakite, in time to untangle the ancient mythology and mystery of her mind? Only by doing so can she reach across the unimaginable chasm of space and time to save what remains of the fleet and secure the survival of her species.
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