I did not see the film, “Easy Rider”, until it was shown on British TV in 1996. However, the idea of riding a motorcycle across the USA had always appealed to me. In the early 1980s my sister, Philippa and her husband, Mike, were living in the USA, in Arizona, so I saved up my pounds and pences, and my leave allowance from my job in the scientific civil service, and resolved to fulfil my ambition. This is an account of that journey. Keith Jahans, September 2013
