Drive, Ride, Repeat: The Mostly-True Account of a Cross-Country Car and Bicycle Adventure

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What the reviewers say: "A fun fast read", "Really, really well written", "Really enjoyable, great voice", "A perfect read for a lazy afternoon.", "It's all good! A well written, entertaining read by a likable guy." Author Al Macy is a character and a tightwad with a unique sense of humor. He and his wife squirreled away enough money to retire early, do interesting things and take unusual trips. As he puts it, The book is a journal of a car/bicycle/camping trip from California to St. Louis and back. But Macy promises that “if it starts sounding like one of your brother-in-law’s boring slide shows, I will stop this book, and we’ll turn around and go home. I mean it.”

Al Macy

Al Macy writes because he has stories to tell. In school he was the class clown and always the first volunteer for show and tell. His teachers would say “Al has a lot of imagination.” Then they'd roll their eyes. But he put his storytelling on the back burner until he retired and wrote a blog about his efforts to improve his piano sight-reading. That's when his love of storytelling burbled up to the surface, along with quirky words like “burble.” He had even more fun writing his second book, Drive, Ride, Repeat, but was bummed by non-fiction's need to stick to “the truth” (yucko). From then on it was fiction all the way, with a good dose of his science background burbling to the surface. Macy's top priority is compelling storylines with satisfying plot twists, but he never neglects character development. No, wait … his top priority is quirkiness, then compelling storylines, then character development. No, wait …

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