Chronicles of a Motorcycle Gypsy

The 49 States Tour

By: Tiffani Burkett

Narrated by: Tiffani Burkett

Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's summary

A journey of 38,000 miles begins with a single twist of the throttle.

After six years of laying rubber on racetracks and immersing herself in the high octane, adrenaline pumping sport of motorcycle racing, Tiffani was yearning for something new from her life on two wheels.

Fortunately (or unfortunately), losing her comfortable office job was the perfect opportunity to do exactly that.

Twenty-eight years old, single, unattached, and now unemployed, she took her 2015 Yamaha FZ-07 and built the nimble sport bike into a make-shift adventure motorcycle. She packed it full of camping gear and set off on an adventure that she had always dreamed about.

The problem? Tiffani had scarcely traveled outside her long-time home in Los Angeles, let alone with nothing but a tent and hope to keep her safe.

Chronicles of a Motorcycle Gypsy is an inspiring tale of confronting fears, insecurities, and self- doubts for the sake of following your heart, all while discovering the many wonders of the 49 continental United States.

Tiffani encounters some of the best and worst of humanity, meets a friend who eventually makes her journey a little less lonely, and puts all of her riding skills to the test, struggling with everything from her first time riding a sport bike in deep sand to getting caught in a blizzard in the Colorado mountains. It's a big world outside the racetrack!

Originally published as a travelogue in Motorcyclist Magazine as Girl Meets World, this full-length memoir contains the untold stories and the details that were a little too racy for the blog.

If you loved Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman's Long Way Round and Ted Simon's Jupiter's Travels, you'll love Chronicles of a Motorcycle Gypsy!

©2018, 2019 Tiffani Burkett (P)2020 Tiffani Burkett

Very engaging book!

I ride motorcycles and one of my goals is to go across the country and experience adventure. Her stories, sense of humor, very relatable.

great book

loved the book, very honest and funny. I loved the author's sense of humor, sarcasm, and her deadpan delivery. finished it in one day and immediately bought the sequel.

Good story

I enjoyed the story, as a motorcyclist interested in some long trips.
Good adventure. Fair but not great recording quality.

Great story

I really wish she had chosen to have a professional read the book. It’s a great story tho

A great motorcycle tour and the good and bad

I loved hearing about her journeys. I thoroughly enjoyed the people who she met on the way. Her enthusiasm want to read all her books.

Raw, honest and engaging!

I'm a fan of Jack Kerouac and his raw assessment of his travels.
I'm now also a fan of Tiffani Burkett, a fellow rider who shares some of Jack's raw style while being far easier to relate to. I'm in the planning phase of a Florida to Alaska adventure, and Tiffani has inspired me to shift gears and pursue my own story.

good honest raw story, rushed reading

i really enjoyed hearing the raw personal story of the author and it's almost always best when the author reads. that is true here as well, though ms. Burkett seems to read in a very rushed mode. this is unlike her normal speaking style which is casual/chill but not slurred and rushed.

overall, i enjoyed it and will probably pick up the sequel one of these days.

if ms. Burkett reads this, cheers to you for all your adventures and bringing us along.

I wanna go.

Even in the short time before I realized the narrator and author are one and the same I chucked as I noticed; There's a subtle little speech thing there that I would typically find only distracting, but in her case it was somehow cute. I frequently (more often than not) wanted more details, but then it was a great distance covered in a short time. No, that doesn't work; more detail please. You leave us (those like me of course) wanting to get more of the experience of your adventure. Now that I have commitments (note: not that I regret them) I can no longer jump on my bike for quite such adventure.
Please, please keep going. I'll be looking forward to compilation book II as certain questions need answers ;)

Motorcycle adventure travel from the heart

This is a delightful story about setting a goal and then setting out fearlessly to achieve it. Tiffani’s descriptions of people, places, weather, fears, relationships, roads, and culture are engaging. I’m looking forward to the movie :)

insightfully

Gives great insight to the challenges beginning female riders face, placed along side a very personal story of travel in NA