Tortillas to Totems

Every Day an Adventure, Book 4

By: Sam Manicom, Birgit Schunemann

Narrated by: Sam Manicom

Sam Manicom's dynamic fourth book is an enticing yet frequently challenging motorcycle journey across the dramatic landscapes of Mexico, the United States and Canada. Sam's partner Birgit is no longer a novice motorcyclist - riding through southern Africa and South America turned her into a rider capable of facing any challenge. But Sam was worried.

As they arrived into North America they had been travelling around the world by motorcycle for six years and he was beginning to think that North America was going to be easy; too easy in fact. Were all the challenges of travel in the developing world countries going to be missing? Sam couldn't have been more wrong.

Samuel Johnson wrote, "The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them how they are." After all, aren't these some of the main reasons for going travelling? To experience as many different things and ways of life as possible? To discover new and wonderful things, but also to have preconceived ideas challenged.

This true-life story has more twists and turns than a Rocky Mountain Pass, and more surprises than anyone could expect. As it did them, at times it could challenge you too. Woven into this surprising story are canyons, cowboys, idyllic beaches, bears, mountains, Californian Vineyards, gun-toting policemen with grudges, glaciers, exploding volcanoes, dodgy border crossings, and some of the most stunning open roads that a traveler could ever wish to see.

A gripping rollercoaster of a journey across North America. Sam and Birgit are thrown into a completely new set of challenges. These adventures bring alive the history, geography, human relationships and the pure joy of the open road.

©2011 Sam H.N. Manicom (P)2017 Sam H.N. Manicom

Pretty well done

I enjoyed the story but the appendix dropped my rating to 2 stars 4 without.

Fantastic Adventures!

I've read all of Sam's books now, his sense of adventure, exploration, introspection and reflections as well as his observations of the world, different places and the people living there is incredible. I couldn't put his books down and now I'm actually bummed that I've completed them all!

A wonderful tale told

I had already enjoyed the written manuscript by Sam Manicom, but to have the story told by the author himself brings a different life to the tales of his journey. As always, Sam brings strongly the human side of worldly exploration, the motorcycle Libby being simply the accomplice.

Tortillas to Totems is worth the read for any aspiring traveler to the Americas, in any vehicle one chooses.

Genuine and well written!!

Sam richly describes what he sees and even more what he feels. Reading this book will leave you a better person in more than one aspect.

Another great book by Sam Manicom

Such a great story teller. Makes you feel like you on the journey/adventure with him. Don’t even have to like motorcycles to enjoy his books