| Title | : | The Way Out: The Road, The Sky, The Love, The Journey |
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (979 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1475996233 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 404 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-02 |
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Life has been a great adventure for Rick Elkins. A former US Navy fighter pilot during World War II, an airline pilot, and a consummate biker, he has never been afraid of taking risks. But though his mind is still sharp, his eighty-three-year-old body is not. Unless he proceeds with a risky surgery, heart failure awaits him. Rick decides against the surgery, wanting his remaining time on Earth free of doctors and hospitals. But nearing the end triggers a time of sober reflection, and in his mind he travels back to the end of World War II, when he started his career as a pilot. It was then that he developed a love for motorcycles-and for Angie Mertz, a beautiful stewardess who later becomes his wife. Tragedy struck after only a year of marriage, however, when an auto accident claimed Angie's life. Rick, distraught, took an extended leave from his job and took his Harley-Davison motorcycle on a long road trip to California, where he met Annette, a fellow biker. Their on-and-off affair-an
Editorial : About the Author Dick Elder was born in 1927 and grew up in northeastern Ohio. He trained as a combat air crewman during World War II. Elder graduated from the Ohio State University in 1949. In 1960, he moved to Durango, Colorado; built a dude ranch; and operated it for thirty-seven years. Dick is the author of the novel, Lovers & Liars, It Sure Beats Working, a collection of short stories and poetry, and his memoir, Which Way is West. These books are also available as E-books.
His personal recollections range from watching the construction of a subway station literally under his own house as a six-year old during the extension of one of the lines, making family pilgrimages to relatives' houses, Broadway plays and various sporting events, all the way to taking his own children to the Subway Museum in Brooklyn as they grew up.
The book is filled with many old photographs of stations, elevated lines and all of the versions of rolling stock that have been a part of the first one hundred years. Great book thank you. Not that they're going to be winning one-on-one fights with the Cathayans, but it gives them a different flavor than the wholly pathetic Western blood-slaves.
The cultural stuff is nothing too surprising, but I didn't notice any big holes in it, either. I laughed a lot with this book. During his Packer career the author sometimes get stuck on just telling the overall result for the team a particular season with one or two stories about
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