the place I’M speculated to BELONG is the tale of a Missouri man
who travels to the French Alps to climb the main well-known mountain in
professional biking: L’Alpe d’Huez.

Jim Ramirez’s aim is to arrive the summit on a highway motorbike in lower than an
hour. He travels the quickest who travels by myself. Jim lives through Kipling’s proverb,
not in simple terms at the mountain, yet within the ecu towns he visits afterward,
by approach of present.

The memoir comprises 4 elements. half One: Jim arrives in Amsterdam,
and, with little greater than a backpack and a Hunter Thompson novel in
tow, makes his means through teach and bus to the village of Alpe d’Huez to
climb the mountain. half : The French Riviera. half 3: Avignon.
Part 4: Barcelona—then again to the USA. partially One, Jim’s protagonist
is the mountain. He then reveals convenience at the Mediterranean Sea, and
inspiration within the historical towns of Avignon and Barcelona. yet these
pleasures are shot via with one other adversary: loneliness. He grapples
with language obstacles, jellyfish, alternate charges, overamorous bartenders,
and spats with Europeans and american citizens alike over the foibles of the Bush
administration. He survives an tried theft in simple terms to expire of money
anyway. He stands in a box as soon as painted through Van Gogh, crosses a
timeless bridge, watches water burn, and memorializes a colourful array
of characters and small moments in his sketchbook. Flying solo, he finds
much time to mirror on his life—choices he’s made, different mountains
he’s attempted to climb—and the isolation he has felt again domestic in Kansas City,
as good.

This is a grown man’s coming-of-age tale that still conveys the pleasures,
humor, and problems of touring in nations except one’s personal. It will
appeal to an individual conversant in wanderlust—as good as aggressive people
in common, biking fanatics particularly; unmarried fathers; loners; lovers
of artwork, song, historical past, and wine…indeed, somebody dealing with a mountain, or who
has additionally skilled loneliness as a melody that just one individual can hear.