Download or read book Just Cruzin written by Douglas A. Miller and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just Cruzin’ is the true story of my two-month, 16,246-mile transcontinental motorcycle ride. From my home in Southwest Michigan, I first rode south to Key West Florida...my southernmost starting point. From there, I began a journey that took me through New Orleans and west to tour Big Bend National Park on the Rio Grande in Texas. Riding north through El Paso, I intersected with the Continental Divide in New Mexico and crisscrossed it through the Rocky Mountain range across the Canadian border. The awe-inspiring Canadian Rockies were a treat to behold as I continued north. I rode the entire length of the Alaska Highway, from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, through the Yukon to Fairbanks. During the return trip through the most remote areas of the far northwestern wilderness of British Columbia, I was plagued by mechanical difficulties. A weekend visit with friends near Edmonton, Alberta, provided me with the repairs required to complete my goal, culminating at the Black Hills Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota. This was a monumental project that was years in the planning. I endured vast climate changes, encountered wild animals, mechanical failures, and narrowly escaped death on the highways of North America. This is a day-by-day account of my ultimate motorcycle ride of a lifetime.
Download or read book Lowrider Space written by Ben Chappell and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aren’t lowriders always gangbangers? And, don’t they always hold high status in their neighborhoods? Contrary to both stereotypes, the people who build and drive lowrider cars perform diverse roles while mobilizing a distinctive aesthetic that is sometimes an act of resistance and sometimes of belonging. A fresh application of critical ethnographic methods, Lowrider Space looks beyond media portrayals, high-profile show cars, and famous cruising scenes to bring readers a realistic tour of the “ordinary” lowriders who turn streetscapes into stages on which dynamic identities can be performed.Drawing on firsthand participation in everyday practices of car clubs and cruising in Austin, Texas, Ben Chappell challenges histories of erasure, containment, and class immobility to emphasize the politics of presence evidenced in lowrider custom car style. Sketching out a partially personal map of the lowrider presence in Texas’s capital city, Chappell also explores the interior and exterior adornment of the cars (including the use of images of women’s bodies) and the intersecting production of personal and social space. As he moves through a second-hand economy to procure parts necessary for his own lowrider vehicle, on “service sector” wages, themes of materiality and physical labor intersect with questions of identity, ultimately demonstrating how spaces get made in the process of customizing one’s self.
Download or read book Jihad written by David Newton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prentice's blood ran cold as he listened to Ali. The F.B.I. knew something was up, they just didn't know what. And nobody, as far as he knew, suspected anything this big. The first thing he had to do was call Washington, D.C. on a secure satellite phone and let them know. Then he would call all of his men and close in on the truck. He couldn't let the cell members get far enough to actually hijack the windsailers from the truck. But could he catch them in time, he hoped so for the sake of the free world, or the whole world for that matter. After meeting at a truck driving school, two novice truck drivers, Lance Getty and former detective sergeant Wil Fox, start team driving and run up against the cargo hijacking industry. The hijackings are part of an Al Qaeda plan to bring murder and mayhem to the United States by blowing up four hydroelectric dams on the West Coast. With backup from the FBI, the truckers clash with the hijackers and Al Qaeda in the Nevada desert, lighting up the night sky with a stunning pyrotechnic display. But who will make it out alive? And will the United States ever be safe again?
Download or read book Barrio Logos written by Raúl Homero Villa and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggles over space and resistance to geographic displacement gave birth to much of Chicano history and culture. In this pathfinding book, Raúl Villa explores how California Chicano/a activists, journalists, writers, artists, and musicians have used expressive culture to oppose the community-destroying forces of urban renewal programs and massive freeway development and to create and defend a sense of Chicano place-identity. Villa opens with a historical overview that shows how Chicano communities and culture have grown in response to conflicts over space ever since the United States' annexation of Mexican territory in the 1840s. Then, turning to the work of contemporary members of the Chicano intelligentsia such as Helena Maria Viramontes, Ron Arias, and Lorna Dee Cervantes, Villa demonstrates how their expressive practices re-imagine and re-create the dominant urban space as a community enabling place. In doing so, he illuminates the endless interplay in which cultural texts and practices are shaped by and act upon their social and political contexts.
Download or read book The Momentum Journey written by Rob Lohman and published by MOJO Publishing, A Division of The. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Momentum Journey : Breakdown at Exit 63 is a true story of persistence, perseverance, and passion. It is about peaks and valleys. It is about expectations and disappointments. It is about hope and humility. It is about having a dream, a purpose, and a drive to succeed no matter what the obstacles may be. It is a story guided by the principles of faith. It is about a journeyThe Momentum Journey. I wrote this book to help inspire people who feel trapped and are struggling to find their purpose in life. This book is like a set of tools for life that can be used and reused, actually sharpening with each use. I want people to look beyond what they know to learn what they do not know. After all, the day we stop learning is the day we stop living. Fear is an emotion that does not discriminate.It is up to each individual to find their spark and their passion, to leave their comfort zones and grow from their fears, and to go out to do great things. It is up to each individual to discover the hope that lies deep inside their soul and to live out their own dreams. So why is that so many people in the world struggle to find their purpose in life? Who is the deciding factor in defining your purpose? Is it you? Your parents? Society? Gods will? Your circle of influence? The wealthy neighbor? The poor neighbor? Who then?Why is it that the average worker changes careers six times? Not jobs, but careers! Factor in a few jobs within each career and you are looking at an individual who is searching for their purpose. Have the days of long-term employment come and gone? Is your job security threatened? Are you fulfilled at work? What is IT that makes people happy, joyous, and free? Is it a big house? A shiny car? A beautiful spouse? Successful children? A huge 401K? A quality relationship with your family? A balanced life? A relationship with a Higher Power of your understanding? A life with meaning and purpose?Take a moment to reflect on some of the questions above and assess where you are today. I have found this tool extremely helpful in my career journey and I am sure you will too. How do you know where you are going if you dont know how you got where you are? The stories you are about to read are real. They are about individuals who made life-changing sacrifices to pursue their passions in life. They are about the inspirations in your local communities. They are about finding a purpose in life. Enjoy the book!Gratefully,Rob The MOJO Man Lohman
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Download or read book From Zero to Hero written by Damaja Le and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Zero to Hero by Damaja Le From Zero to Hero is not a confessional in the true sense of the word; it’s not about people telling secrets or outing dirty little antics that went on in a club or concert parking lot or hotel room with a Monica Lewinsky nightcap, as I expected. It’s more of a two-part contention, a story of courage fueled by the determination to succeed, however long it took. It’s about a man suffering with alcoholism, drug addiction, unemployment, and a rapidly failing marriage. He wanted to move his family some place where they could start over, where nobody knew them. Somehow finding the courage and strength of conviction, something he had learned and developed while in the Marine Corps, he knew he could overcome any situation with the right motivation, funding and staffing. Sounds kind of crazy when put in those terms, but I relate to what he was saying, having had similar experiences. It was deeply personal as well as tragic. This is also an up close glimpse into shadowy deals and tiny print promises that can either make or break a trust. I’ve known and respected Damaja for many years and I’m honored he asked for my opinion. HAHA, seriously, get the book – it’s pretty entertaining. -Ron Dhanifu, Broadcaster and on air personality for radio station 88.3 FM K.S.D.S San Diego, California Damaja Le, a Viet-Nam Vet and four time Purple Heart recipient, arrived in San Diego on February 22 in a 1976 Bi-Centennial Greyhound bus with 79 cents in his pocket trying to kick a hundred-dollar-a-day heroin habit along with trying to dry out from alcoholism by dropping tabs of orange sunshine acid. Could I help? I wasn’t a rehab councilor, but a mutual friend thought I could at least point him a positive direction. Through our many conversations, he told me after leaving the military. He tried to assimilate into a regular home life by getting a job, getting married, and having kids, even going back to school on the G. I. Bill. As hard as he tried, he just didn’t get it. Everything must change. I would come to ask Damaja if he would do anything different and he smiled and said, “Nothing different just more of it.” Great reading couldn’t put it down. -Michael R. Pritchard, Chief Interviewer and Detective for the indigent and displaced in Harvur Buns, Oregon
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