Going The Wrong Way

A young man escapes 1970s Belfast on his Moto Guzzi Le Mans, and tries to find himself... and the road to Australia... what could possibly go wrong

This hip, hilarious travelogue, which takes the author on the Sixties hippie trail — from the UK to Australia without flying — will strike a chord with all those travelers who have stood where Moore stood, and entertain and alarm lovers of off-the-beaten-track travel adventures with his characteristically quirky descriptions of places and people.

Picking up his Royal Enfield motorcycle in Delhi, Andy Benfield leaves for Burma with his aristocratic girlfriend in a bid to be the first westerner to cross into Burma by motorcycle in over fifty years and to win his girlfriend's heart. Triumphs, mishaps, and unexpected experiences follow the unprepared couple along the Himalayas toward their goal.

While navigating the spiritual and moral roads of life, there are some dangerous, destructive, or potentially deadly situations, but the good news is God allows you to turn around! Original.

She had taken a wrong turn in life and now it's up to her to make it right. When Dicey loses her company, gorgeous husband and last vestiges of self-esteem in quick succession, she feels the simplest solution to her problems is to flee. She heads back to her childhood home with her sister, wayward friend and 75-kilo Irish wolfhound, Fergus, in tow, hoping to take refuge from the disaster that has become her life. And for a while, the weird but wonderful town of Moo, with its bizarre locals and Friesian black-and-white painted everything - telephone poles, electricity boxes, phone boxes, anything really that isn't already a cow - manages to distract all three girls from their problems. But when Dicey reconnects with her childhood sweetheart, and her husband, Jean-Luc, turns up with his sexy new girlfriend, she is forced into action: she was the one who took a wrong turn in life and now it's up to her to make it right.

Tibbar the backward bunny does everything the opposite from what's expected, walking backwards and going up the down stairs.

From an important new American writer comes this powerful collection of personal essays on fear, creativity, art, faith, academia, the Internet, and justice. In this poignant and inciting collection of literary essays, Megan Stielstra tells stories to ward off fears both personal and universal as she grapples toward a better way to live. In her titular piece “The Wrong Way To Save Your Life,” she answers the question of what has value in our lives—a question no longer rhetorical when the apartment above her family’s goes up in flames. “Here is My Heart” sheds light on Megan’s close relationship with her father, whose continued insistence on climbing mountains despite a series of heart attacks leads the author to dissect deer hearts in a poetic attempt to interrogate her own feelings about mortality. Whether she's imagining the implications of open-carry laws on college campuses, recounting the story of going underwater on the mortgage of her first home, or revealing the unexpected pains and joys of marriage and motherhood, Stielstra's work informs, impels, enlightens, and embraces us all. The result is something beautiful—this story, her courage, and, potentially, our own. Intellectually fierce and viscerally intimate, Megan Stielstra's voice is witty, wise, warm, and above all, achingly human. “Stielstra is a masterful essayist.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and Hunger

'Mate, I reckon you're going about this all wrong. For the first month, you're only going to be a day's drive from Melbourne. If it was me, I'd get her across the Nullarbor quick smart so she can't nick off home.' When Lorna Hendry, her husband James and young kids left Melbourne on a one-year trip around Australia in a 4WD with a camper trailer (having only been camping once before they left), they ignored all advice and drove across the Nullarbor and up the west coast of Australia. They may have been travelling the wrong way around Australia, but it was the best decision they ever made. Lorna returned to Melbourne three years later, having crossed deserts and rivers, taken ill-advised short cuts in the most remote areas of the country, stood on the western edge and the northern tip of the country, stumbled onto its geographic centre, and lived in remote communities in Western Australia. Wrong Way Round is a story about four people who had to get out of the city to become a family. It's about this beautiful and harsh country. And it's about the adventures that you can have if you step outside of your door and turn left instead of right.