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“The doors of An American Place are ever open to all…” Alfred Stiglitz, 1937. “The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca...” Anthony Bourdain 2002. “On the empty page before you; You can fill in what you care; But try to make it new before you go” Neil Young, Stringman, 1993.
“The doors of An American Place are ever open to all…” Alfred Stiglitz, 1937. “The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca...” Anthony Bourdain 2002. “On the empty page before you; You can fill in what you care; But try to make it new before you go” Neil Young, Stringman, 1993.
‘An American Sketch’ is a 76,000-word travelogue describing my four-month, 16,500-mile motorcycle tour around North America between March and June 2024. The work is divided into 60 chapters, first describing the inspiration and the planning, and then my route and destinations in broadly chronological order and featuring my photography. featuring my photography.
It started life as a series of online posts written for people (mainly bikers, but not all…) who asked for regular updates and photographs. Consequently, some of the text reads like the daily journal that it was. Having written about many, more modest, tours I’ve done over the last fifteen years, writing acts - for me - like a lightning rod to a particular moment in time and didn’t want to lose what have become precious memories of something I’m unlikely to do again.
‘An American Sketch’ is available is hardback, flexcover (UK-only), eBook and Kindle where it is also included the Kindle Unlimited program.