Travel writer and author, Simon Parker, has shared an exclusive extract with the Daily Express from his newly-released book A Ride Across America, an insightful and frequently funny account of his 4,000-mile journey through the US.
The extract details his mission to find the real America and his slow journey across the continent by bike. Along the way he met hundreds of ordinary folk and discovered a country more united than it seems from the other side of the Atlantic, if a little bit eccentric.
Read the full piece here.
