An evening with Noraly Schoenmaker
Join Noraly Schoenmaker on Tuesday 8th July at Waterstones Edinburgh West End, as she talks about her truly inspiring story, Free Ride!
About An evening with Noraly Schoenmaker
Join Noraly Schoenmaker on Tuesday 8th July at 7pm, as she talks about her truly inspiring story, Free Ride; and how she was able to find a new sense of purpose amidst a moment of personal crisis, and chose to embark on an epic, transcontinental motorcycle ride. All books bought as part of Book & Ticket will be signed on the evening.
Noraly Schoenmaker was a thirty-something geologist when she discovered her partner had been having an affair. Suddenly in search of a new beginning, she quit her job and flew to India. There her life changed forever when she fell in love: with a motorcycle. Behind the handlebars, she felt alive and free—nimble enough to trace the narrowest paths, powerful enough to travel the longest of roads.
She first travelled toward the Pacific, through the jungles of Myanmar and Thailand, then into Malaysia. But this only piqued her appetite for the open road. So, she shipped her beloved motorcycle to Oman, and rode all the way backhome to the Netherlands via Iran, Turkmenistan and the snowy peaks of Central Asia.
She covered remote and utterly unfamiliar territory; broke down on impossibly steep mountains; and pushed too many miles along empty roads. But through her travels she discovered the true beauty of the world – the kindness of its people, the simplicity of its open spaces – as well as her ow ninner strength.
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