A Ride Across America

"On the eve of the 2024 election, a fascinating - and frequently funny - tale of one man cycling the breadth of America. Frustrated by the shallow headlines focusing only on Trump, guns and divisions, award-winning travel writer Simon Parker decided that to better understand the USA he would have to travel across it, slowly. Did the America of his teenage dreams really exist? And was it really as fractured as the headlines suggest? On his journey to find out, Simon cycled 4,373 miles through eleven states and numerous extreme weather events, via mountains and prairie lands, forests and freeways. Along the way he visited homes, schools, churches and rodeos, meeting hundreds of (extra)ordinary Americans behind the clickbait news posts to discover a nation whose portrayal has become vastly oversimplified."--

Simon Parker is a British travel writer, author, filmmaker, public speaker and broadcast journalist, working across a wide range of themes and subjects. He has reported on stories as diverse as 'migrant crisis' in Greece and social inequality in the barrios of Northern Colombia. He's paraglided solo through the Andes and driven a rickshaw the length of India. His first book, Riding Out, was published in April 2022 to great acclaim. All his travels and adventures are shared with his followers @simonwiparker.