Breaking the Limit: One Woman's Motorcycle Journey Through North America | 
 enlarge | Author: Karen Larsen
Publisher: Hyperion
Category: Book
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 187623
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0786868708
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.304931
EAN: 9780786868704
ASIN: 0786868708
Publication Date: July 7, 2004
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Product Description
reaking the Limit is one woman's account of riding her motorcycle from New Jersey to Alaska and back. Realizing that years of work and travel in other people's countries made her a stranger in her own, and with an invitation to meet her biological father for the first time, Karen Larsen set out on a fifteen-thousand-mile trip with nothing but her motorcycle and the barest of essentials. Larsen's journey tests the limits of her own endurance, challenges her long-held beliefs and values, and asks what it means to belong to a family. Through the the fields of Iowa and the deserts of the Southwest, over the Rockies and across Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, Larsen confronts questions of femininity, family, independence, and personal identity. Her journey speaks to the immense space and over-whelming beauty of North America, as well as to the diversity and vitality of the people she meets along the way. Breaking the Limit invites you to join her as she braces against the wind, trades security for freedom, sacrifices stability for motion, and opens herself up to the vast canopy of a continent.
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 Great read November 30, 2008
I read this book and loved the adventurous ride! Ordered a second copy to give as a gift to a girl friend that rides a Big Dog....figured she'd also apprecitate the solo journey done on a Sportster!
Breaking the Limit November 13, 2008
Super book about a young, educated lady who rides a Harley 1200 motorcycle about 18,000 miles, all the way to Alaska and back to Massachusetts. She is one gutsy lady and tells it like it is. Good book.
 breaking the limit July 28, 2008
The story is excellent .you get the feel of riding a motorcycle through her words.
exactly what I had hoped January 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was first brought to my attention as an amazon reccommendation. Just from reading the excerpts I thought this might be a good read. I will say, (again,) this was exactly what I had hoped for. Karen's journey from New Jersey into Alaska and back, using almost all back roads, was a detailed account of what it might be like as a woman traveling throughout the united states. She stayed at, for the most part, campsites or hostels, only rarely staying in a hotel, thats over 14000 miles. An incredible review of the journey, and not so much the destination.
The first thing you might ask while reading this, as I did and do, is, how did she remember all these details? She must of taken notes every night before she camped. The roads she took, the people she met at gas stations or coffee houses, their names, what they were wearing, the expressions on their faces, all of it. She of course doesnt account everything, the book would be monsterous, but she gives you a good idea of the whole aspect of the journey. If your into adventure, motorcycles, and possibly getting an idea on your next summer road trip, I say read this book.
Amazing endurance July 1, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What an incredible read by an amazing woman. The book is intelligently written, including bits of history in her descriptions of areas traveled and her encounters with strangers. I also ride a "SPORTY" and men are amazed that I have ridden over 10,000 miles on it, much less a "short distance" trip of 450 miles in one day. I am in complete awe that this women did it on a model that was not rubber mounted as is mine. Have shared excerpts with my husband and he is interested in reading the book also. And being the man that he is, knowing I would enjoy a solo/soul searching journey of travel, encouraged me by stating he would "hold down the fort" so I could have a similar but shorter experience. Definitely recommend this to all women who ride.
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