Wandering Wheels
Wandering Wheels

Author: Sushant Kaushik

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2021-02-05

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1637455097

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“I wish I’d read this book before everything I went through.’ Sumeer, Part-time writer, full-time lover ‘Author may be exaggerating some stuff. Not everything has to be believed.’ Priya Jain, 100-meter specialist, bad at marathons ‘My favourite travel companion.’ Kanika Malhotra, Gypsy with a vintage car ‘If you know your destination, your speed would tell you the time needed to cover the distance. But what if the distance is zero and the destination is inside of you? How much time does it take then? More importantly, which vehicle do you choose?’ Maria, Sumeer, Kanika and Nigel embark on a similar journey at different points in their lives, to realise that love can have a different meaning for everyone, that no love can have a different meaning for everyone, that no love is greater than the other, and that love comes with possibilities, not limitations. Wandering Wheels is a gripping, stay-up-all-night treat to all the anxious souls trying to discover their places in this unfair yet beautiful world. It gives a lesson or two about unconditional love and forgiveness, incessant pain and liberation, and the serendipitous twists and turns fate brings in this journey called life, from one wheel to another.

Shore to Shore, A Father-and-Son Journey Across America
Shore to Shore, A Father-and-Son Journey Across America

Author: David C. Winyard Sr

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008-03-01

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1430317582

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As a young man, David Winyard rode his bicycle from Oregon to Delaware with Wandering Wheels, an Indiana-based cycling organization. The experience was so fulfilling that he repeated the trip a few years later on a tandem bicycle with his wife Traci. In 2002, after years of preparation, Winyard set out on the same bike to duplicate his youthful experience with his oldest child, David Charles, then fourteen. At age 45, Winyard found the trip to be a much greater challenge than expected. The result, SHORE TO SHORE: A Father-and-Son Journey Across America, describes their adventure, including the surprising lessons learned before, during, and after their trip.

The Invisible Mountain
The Invisible Mountain

Author: Robert P. Vande Kappelle

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2010-09-01

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1498271383

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In 1989 Dr. Robert Vande Kappelle cycled solo cross-country. The 3,400-mile trip was the seed project for the Washington County (Pennsylvania) chapter of Habitat for Humanity. For forty-two days he went "Homeless for Habitat," placing himself and his personal needs in the hands of strangers he met along the way. At the beginning he cycled across some of the most mountainous--and spectacular--terrain in America. After he crossed the Rockies, a nagging headwind arose, which only intensified with time. That, coupled with a deteriorating bicycle--along one of the most desolate stretches of the journey--produced spiritual testing of epic proportions. He was tempted to compromise the integrity of the trek, then to quit the trek, and finally to curse his circumstances. He sensed he was climbing an invisible mountain, whose top could not be reached. After venting his anger and frustration, he discerned that tailwinds and flat terrain rarely evoke wisdom. Insight flows freely, however, from the watershed atop life's invisible mountains. The Invisible Mountain narrates the account of that trek. The story examines the trek as adventure, spiritual odyssey, and as metaphor for the journey of life. In the words of Millard Fuller, co-founder of Habitat for Humanity International and The Fuller Center for Housing: "Ride with [Bob Vande Kappelle] as you read. You will enjoy the trip and you will gain all sorts of insights . . . and perhaps most importantly, you will learn about yourself and grow spiritually as you experience vicariously the wonderful adventure of this 'journey of faith.'"

Special Use Vehicles
Special Use Vehicles

Author: George W. Green

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2007-01-09

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0786429119

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Beyond the traditional purposes of moving people, goods, raw materials, and mail from place to place lies a world of unconventional uses of motor vehicles. Rolling grocery stores, churches, classrooms and health clinics have taken traditionally stationary services directly to those who need them. Companies have built vehicles in the shapes of their products (the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile being just one famous example) from the early years of automobiles. This lively history gives a fascinating overview of the many special purposes vehicles have served. The unconventional uses of motor vehicles stretch one's imagination. The author here divides them into eight types based on their purposes and uses. Sales vehicles support a successful sales volume; advertising vehicles retain present customers and attract new ones; education and training vehicles provide skills updates for employees; charity vehicles are used to serve various populations of the needy, suffering, and distressed; religious vehicles promote a particular faith; functional vehicles perform an on-the-spot function normally done by a fixed-base facility; multimodal vehicles have the ability to traverse land, water, and air; and government vehicles provide a host of services to constituencies. Examples are provided for each type of vehicle and examples from other nations besides the United States are included as well.