Ticket to Ride

Description

Title: Ticket to Ride
Author: Darmody Sarah
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Antiquarian Books
ISBN: 9781863255257

After a lifetime of winning nothing but the right to be designated driver, Sarah Darmody strikes it lucky in a lottery system so bizarre it’s often dismissed as urban legend. When her name is pulled from a global pool of 6.5 million hopefuls, she finds herself with the key to a whole new country; the legendary Green Card, the right to live and work in America for the rest of her life. But she has to spend serious quality time in her new country or lose it.So she sets off to circumnavigate the US by way of another legendary ticket to ride: the Greyhound bus. However romantic it might look in ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’, she soon discovers it’s more ‘Midnight Cowboy’ territory, favoured by the desperately poor, the despicably odoured, the dubiously paroled. After a shaky start, Sarah becomes almost at one with her new tribe as each bus trip becomes a private Jerry Springer show on wheels. As she becomes a veteran at hogging seat and window space, taking mini baths in bus terminal sinks that would scare the average swamp creature, telling big porkies of her own to fend off unwanted bus buddies, she begins to fall for one of the most beautiful, unusual and crazy places on earth.From New York to Sante Fe, Big Sky Montana to the soupy voodoo of New Orleans, picture postcard Maine to the lazy emptiness of Texas, to the gates of The Happiest Place on Earth, Disneyworld, as she gets down and dirty in the hell-holes, heartland and heavenly beauty of America, Sarah finds the answers to some big questions about life, home, identity, long-distance love and, most importantly, bus snacks.