Whether it was losing his parents or the dissolution of his nearly 25-year marriage, whenever the pain of loss became too great for him to bear, Mirasole looked to the open road for escape. This time, however, the pain looked like something only a 15,000-mile round-trip journey to Deadhorse, Alaska, on the back of a BMW G310GS could remedy.
Whether it was losing his parents or the dissolution of his nearly 25-year marriage, whenever the pain of loss became too great for him to bear, Mirasole looked to the open road for escape.
This time, however, the pain looked like something only a 15,000-mile round-trip journey to Deadhorse, Alaska, on the back of a BMW G310GS could remedy.
His adult children, Arielle and Jojo, certainly didn't want him to make the perilous trip alone.
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Whether it was losing his parents or the dissolution of his nearly 25-year marriage, whenever the pain of loss became too great for him to bear, Mirasole looked to the open road for escape. This time, however, the pain looked like something only a 15,000-mile round-trip journey to Deadhorse, Alaska, on the back of a BMW G310GS could remedy. His adult children, Arielle and Jojo, certainly didn't want him to make the perilous trip alone.
Such was the case when the author's troubled brother Dave passed at 61.
The ghosts of Mirasole's past just wouldn't quit egging him on despite doubts about whether motion still heals, "or does it just outrun the pain long enough to forget you're carrying it?" Mirasole's swiftly paced and economical writing puts readers on the road with him.
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