Blue Horizons
Faces and Places from a Bicycle Journey Along the Blue Ridge Parkway
Jerry Bledsoe

Down Home Press
978-1-878086-05-1
$11.95 paperback
6 x 9
150 pages; black-and-white photos throughout
Published in 1993
Appalachian, Bio/Memoir, North Carolina

The Blue Ridge Parkway is a road unlike any other. Perhaps the world's most beautiful highway, designed only for pleasure, it wends for 470 miles through six mountain ranges in the Southern Appalachians, offering spectacular views, startling natural beauty, charming people, opportunities for adventure, and constant surprises. Author Jerry Bledsoe was drawn to the parkway from childhood, but as he approached age 50, he decided to get to know it in a more intimate way—by bicycle. This book is the story of his 17-day mountain-bike trip from one end of the parkway to the other. Ride with him. Experience his struggles, the constant ups and downs. See the wonders of nature that he encountered. Get to know the fascinating people he met. By the end, you will know the Blue Ridge Parkway as few others ever have.