Grace Takes the Long Way Home

In 2007, John M. Henry left Fort Myers Beach on a blue BMW K1200LT named Grace and rode eleven thousand and eighteen documented miles across America — including a Saddle Sore 1000: a thousand miles in twenty-four hours — because his mother asked him to write something every night so she would know he wasn’t dead in a ditch.

Nineteen years later those nights became this book. Route 66, the Grand Canyon, Big Sur in a forty-mile-an-hour wind, the Million Dollar Highway, New Orleans two years after Katrina, and the long way home. Every mile. All the gear. The receipts still exist.