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Metal Cowboy: Tales from the Road Less Pedaled

31 reviews
Joe Kurmaskie

Breakaway Books, 1999

Top Notch Storytelling
From my blog: [...] I started reading Metal Cowboy, a collection of stories by Joe Kurmaskie, a few weeks ago at my Dad's suggestion and have had a hard time putting it down. I finished it on Thanksgiving day and knew I had to get a review up in short order. Metal Cowboy is a collection of some of Kurmaskie's stories from his long distance bike tours but I promise you that you don't need to be a ...

Adventure Dad: Rescuing Families from the Couch One Expedition at a Time

Breakaway Books, 2007

These are first-person stories of dads who haven't let real life (mortgage, marriage, career, kids) destroy their sense of adventure. If you're anything like Joe Kurmaskie and his legion of Adventure Dads, you're not going down without a fight. It's time to adapt and evolve, to turn your yearning for the wild into something for the good of the whole family. Bringing kids on outdoor expeditions leads to closer relationships, trust, respect, and ...

Momentum Is Your Friend: The Metal Cowboy and His Pint-Sized Posse Take on America

32 reviews
Joe Kurmaskie

Breakaway Books, 2006

What bike would Jesus ride?
This book is about cycling, raising kids, and finding out after you're an adult that there is more growing up to do--things I've done recently. I laughed harder and cried harder. I wanted badly to hop on my bike and ride off into the night--but I couldn't put the book down long enough to get on my bike. Most importantly, after reading this, you will learn the answer to the question: What bike ...

Riding Outside the Lines: International Incidents and Other Misadventures With the Metal Cowboy

17 reviews
Joe Kurmaskie

Three Rivers Press, 2003

The Metal Cowboy's 2nd offering will not disappoint!
[...] A while back I reviewed Metal Cowboy by Joe Kurmaskie which I thoroughly enjoyed. Joe is an amazing writer with a flair for getting to the best of a situation or person and he always has a way of making me laugh out loud while reading his tales. After finishing Metal Cowboy I immediately went out and picked up the follow-up called Riding Outside the Lines. In Riding Outside the Lines ...