Live Full Throttle: What You Can Learn About Life From Women Who’ve Faced Cancer

Summer of 2010 I joined forces with a group of women motorcyclists from the US and Canada raising money for breast cancer causes. You can read about the adventure on my travel blog.

With that pink bra strapped across my bike’s windshield, people approached me at rest stops and gas stations to tell me about their battle or someone else’s. Many of them expressed a desire to join me on the road, even if they didn’t know anything about motorcycles.

Learning from those who’ve faced their own mortality

I rode with women who had survived the disease and those who live with cancer as a chronic condition. One of my friends, Dusty, signed out of medical care after three unsuccessful rounds of treatment to spend the summer riding her bike and raising money. When she returned from her summer and went for a checkup she was CANCER FREE.  Another of my friends, Karen, has a form of lymphoma that is technically incurable, but you’d never know it to meet her on the road. Dusty and Karen are two of hundreds (thousands?) of women who are living their lives at full throttle, cancer be damned.

It wasn’t a far leap from my incredible road trip to the decision to write a book about women motorcyclists who’ve experienced the joy of motorcycle cancer therapy.  The working title: Live Full Throttle: What You can Learn About Life From Women Who’ve Faced Cancer.

Please introduce me to courageous women

I’ll be interviewing the book’s subjects from now through July and have arranged for Christina Shook, motorcycle photographer and author of Chicks on Bikes to photograph them for a beautiful coffee table book. I hope to get something published for October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, even if just a magazine preview.

If you know someone I should interview, please get in touch.