Motorcycles and Memories

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ISBN: 9781970652031

Adventure Beyond the Road

Eric Beal

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Last Bastion Media
06 December 2025

Memoirs; Motorcycles: general interest; Adventure holidays

Motorcycles and Memories: Adventure Beyond the Road is a reflective and deeply personal memoir of a life shaped by motion, risk, and the quiet moments in between. Across decades of riding, Eric D. Beal traces his journey through friendships formed and lost, family, faith, ambition, and the ever-present pull of the open road. What begins as a love story with motorcycles slowly unfolds into a meditation on why we ride, why we wander, and what we carry with us long after the engine is shut off.

From youthful freedom to professional responsibility, from reckless confidence to hard-earned humility, Beal's experiences mirror the broader arc of adulthood itself. The motorcycle becomes both companion and teacher-sometimes offering escape, sometimes demanding accountability, always insisting on presence. Along the way, the author explores loyalty, marriage, fear, aging, success, failure, and the reckoning that eventually comes for every rider.

Written with honesty, restraint, and quiet emotional force, Motorcycles and Memories is not a technical riding manual or a travel guide. It is a human story told through the lens of the road-about what we chase, what we survive, and what ultimately matters when the miles begin to add up. It is a book for riders, certainly, but also for anyone who has ever felt the tension between obligation and freedom, between who they were and who they are becoming.

Both a tribute to the bond between rider and machine and a broader reflection on life itself, Motorcycles and Memories: Adventure Beyond the Road invites readers to ride along not just across pavement and landscapes, but through memory, loss, resilience, and quiet triumph.

By: Eric Beal
Imprint: Last Bastion Media
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781970652031
ISBN 10: 1970652039
Pages: 236
Publication Date: 06 December 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Eric D. Beal is a Texas trial lawyer, longtime motorcyclist, and former United States Marine Corps officer. With more than three decades of professional experience, he has spent his adult life balancing the demands of service, leadership, and risk-both in the courtroom and on the open road. Motorcycles and Memories: Adventure Beyond the Road is his first published memoir.