Changing gears : a distant teen, a desperate mother, and 4,329 miles across the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail

Day, Leah (author.).

Summary: What happens when a mother and her 16-year-old son drop everything to bike across the country? On the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail, they struggle up hills in the pouring rain, they feel soreness in muscles they didn't know they had, and they learn more about each other than they ever knew before. When licensed clinical therapist and self-proclaimed "reluctant adventurer" Leah Day felt herself drifting from her son, Oakley, she decided to make a drastic play to reconnect. In this memoir chronicling the journey of a lifetime, Leah and Oakley find that if they can push themselves to accomplish physically exhausting and emotionally taxing milestones on a bike, they are capable of anything!

Record details

ISBN: 9781641706544 (softcover)
Physical Description: print
xii, 220 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Reedley, CA : Familius LLC, [2022]
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Devil or angel -- Following his lead -- He zips it up. He zips it down -- Should we do this crazy thing? -- Where's Oakley? -- The whole dang country -- Bear! -- Bike therapy -- Freedom is a need -- Biker advice -- It takes a community -- Forty-nine and eleven-twelfths -- So much to learn -- The spark -- Bubble wrap and more bubble wrap -- Making a list and checking it twice -- Every journey starts with a goodbye -- Tears of bravery -- On our way-ready or not -- First friends -- Cold Coke and meat lover's pizza -- Those who come before -- Can you breathe silence? -- Come on, mom -- I fall apart -- A tent kitten -- The great Mississippi -- Killers and kittens and dogs, oh my! -- The quests that never end.