AND she certainly has been on a solo motorbike journey from the northernmost tips of Alaska to the very southern border of South America, taking in on the way an army of bears, serial bribery, a night in a Mexican brothel and a crash in Patagonia.
She writes with panache, more than a dash of humour and a genuine love of life on the open road that makes you want to volunteer to be her pillion passenger on her next great adventure.
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