Lois on the Loose [Paperback]

Advance Praise for "Lois on the Loose"
 
"Mix a biting British sense of humor with a Yamaha motorcycle and you get this adventure-filled story about an intrepid woman facing her destiny across the Americas, one rain-soaked, bug-infested, low-quality-taco-filled mile at a time."
---Wendy Dale, author of "Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals"
 
"If traveling is a sort of education, then Lois Pryce is now one of the world's most learned adventurers. Her misfortunes, related with wit and good humor, become our fortune, a great tumble of rough gems and gold. Her bike may not be fast, but her account is all speed and joy."
---Melissa Holbrook Pierson, author of "The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles"
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"Lois makes merry work of a rough road. She knows how to tell a good story, and her lighthearted account almost disguises the grit, the resilience, and the brave independence that lay behind her choices. It's a great read, and I ho

A brilliantly entertaining book.

She writes well, moving lightly over her story with a deft touch and a calm
wit. An easy read, and a very 21st century tale.

This fun travelogue follows Lois from the north of Alaska to the
southernmost tip of South America, a journey she undertook alone, bribing
border guards and even spending a night in a Mexican brothel along the way.

One woman, one motorbike, 20,000 miles across the Americas.

Young and beautiful, Lois Pryce was a rising star at the BBC. Unbeknownst to her co-workers, Lois lived a parallel life as a biker babe with an overwhelming sense of wanderlust. So she packed in her career to ride her motorcycle on her own from the northernmost tip of Alaska to the southernmost tip of South America. Alone. Armed only with the Spanish words for 'caution' and 'cheese', Lois was rather under-prepared for multiple bear sightings, bribing her way through borders, spending a night in a Mexican brothel and crashing her bike in the wilds of Patagonia.

She most certainly got the adventure she craved, and her pulse-pounding, soul-searching adventure has already attracted fans worldwide - a weblog that she kept whilst on her travels was receiving more than two-thousand hits a day.

Her hilarious, brilliantly written travelog will appeal to anyone who's ever dreamt of jacking-it-all-in and running away to see the world.

One woman, one motorbike, 20,000 miles across the Americas.

Lois Pryce has one big passion in life: motorcycling. This is the story of how she threw in the day job and followed her dream of escaping. But she didn't escape a little bit. She rode her motorcycle from the northernmost corner of Alaska to the southernmost tip of South America. Alone.

Armed only with the Spanish words for 'caution' and 'cheese', Lois was rather under-prepared for multiple bear sightings, bribing her way through borders, spending a night in a Mexican brothel and crashing her bike in the wilds of Patagonia.

She most certainly got the adventure she craved. Her hilarious, brilliantly written travelogue will appeal to everyone who's ever dreamt of jacking-it-all-in and running away to see the world.

'Lois makes merry work of a rough road. She knows how to tell a good story, and her light-hearted account almost disguises the rit, resilience and the brave independence that lay bahind her choices.' Ted Simon

Torn between the career paths of two illustrious relatives, Max Born, the Nobel Prize Winner in Physics and his granddaughter, Olivia Newton-John, Lois Pryce abandoned her interest in Quantum Theory at the age of 16, left school and spent the next couple of years as a carrot picker, painter and decorator and failing an audition as a kiss-o-gram before bowing to the inevitable and going into rock 'n roll. After various underpaid jobs in record shops and as a product manager in the Beeb, she decided to jack it all in and ride her trail bike from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. Her on-line diary of her journey became a cult hit and led to her first book, Lois on the Loose. She is currently writing her second, about her trip from Tangiers to the Cape of Good Hope. When not on her bike she is at home on her houseboat with husband Austin.