5/18/2023 0 Comments American nomads by richard grantGhost Rider is an impassioned defence of giving it all up: the author describes how, for him, “Wandering became a manifesto, an obsession, a solution to all problems. Teenager Tucson Stacy, a FTRA (Freight Train Rider of America), proudly says, “This ol’ boxcar is my Cadillac, my momma, my poppa, my brother, my home.” Bikers, tie-dye-clad concert- hopping teenagers, travelling salesmen, motorhome-owning senior citizens, long- distance truck drivers and an itinerant are among those he encounters on the highways. Grant recognises all kinds of wanderers as nomadic. He hoped to discover what propels someone away from the settled life. What is a nomad? And is nomadism a natural human impulse to be welcomed, or a “disease of the soul” to be shunned? After being of no fixed abode for 15 years, Richard Grant set out to track down the remaining wanderers of the American West. Sunday January 12 2003, 12.00am, The Sunday Times
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