Moto-author C. Jane Taylor is coming to Sunday Church on June 19th to meet local riders and sign her your new motorcycle memoir “Spirit Traffic".

When she was a little girl, her mother owned the motorcycle shop, Honda of Ann Arbor. Motorcycles colored her childhood until she and her family moved to Northern Michigan and later to Vermont. After a forty-year hiatus, she re-learned to ride a motorcycle at the age of 50. Afraid of her dirt driveway, afraid of dropping her 450-pound bike, afraid of up-hill starts, afraid of tight curves in the road, she took a 10,000-mile cross-country road trip anyway.

Three days after her son’s college graduation, the author set off with him and her yoga-teacher husband (his stepdad) on a motorcycle adventure that took them into uncharted territory-both as novice riders, and as a family. This family trek is the subject of Spirit Traffic: A Mother’s Journey of Self-discovery and Letting Go. The book is a dynamic and heartfelt exploration of midlife transformation that captures the often-overlooked nuances of the Midwest, the deep-rooted magic of the Navajo Nation, the grandeur of National Parks, and the beauty of the West Coast.

As if in the saddle of her dual-sport BMW, the reader experiences the good, the bad, and the heartbreak of her journey as a soon-to-be-empty-nester grappling with impermanence, sexuality, hot flashes, high winds, and tailgating tour buses.

Spirit Traffic is at once a colorful travelogue of a bucket-list bikers’ route across America and an unflinching memoir of a middle-aged mom conquering her fears (on and off her motorcycle), unpacking a complicated childhood, and ultimately, learning to let go of her only child.

Check out more info about Jane and Spirit Traffic at cjanetaylor.com