There is no glitz, no glamour, no glory in this travel narrative. No, there's nothing pretty about two men driving from one end of the road in
Tierra Del Fuego, South America to the other in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. It's about adventure racing, world record breaking, see how fast we can go and how many dangers we can just barely avoid.
Garry Sowerby is a Professional Endurance Driver with a world record to beat but no co-driver. Tim Cahill is a Travel/Adventure Writer with time on his hands and a terrible case of wanderlust. With the help of General Motors and other sponsers Sowerby and Cahill take the trip that's recorded in this book.
"Road Fever" is divided into segments, each one fascinating in its own way. Cahill begins the book writing about the business of adventure driving.
He draws the reader through the painstaking process of funding, sponsership, and networking allowing all to see exactly how an adventure is made before telling how it is experienced.

Individuals who like road trips. Individuals who like the story as well as the story that made it all possible.

The tension, the fights, and Cahill's "revenge" on Sowerby.

Start out on my own road trip! I wanted to search out Cahill and beg to accompany him on his next adventure.

Excited! Enthused! and "in-the-know" about what it takes to do what you love (hard work).

Tim Cahill, has written many books and many more articles. He's research is thorough and detail-oriented. He writes easily and honestly about tense and sometimes hostile situations, even when he's the cause.

It's more than an adventure. It's about two men in a truck seeing how far they can go, how fast, and whether or not they can survive on foaming coffee and beef jerky. I love Cahill's self-depricating sense of humor and his dramatic, overly-romantic view of the trip, the perils, and his role as writer/assistant driver.

Tim Cahill adds extensive history and geographic information that, for those who want to read about adventure without learning all that makes such an adventure possible, might be viewed as boring filler.

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