CHAPTER 8

The Fork in the Road

Several popular YouTube videos show a motorcyclist speeding down a narrow path of a mountain, a path so narrow, in fact, that in some places it’s not much wider than his tires. As you watch the view from the biker’s helmet-mounted GoPro camera, you can’t help noticing that the slightest error on the rider’s part will send him and the bike crashing down the steep cliff. Of course, he makes it safely down the mountain, sometimes throwing in a backflip off a ramp along the way.1

While I would love the thrill of doing this trick myself, I’m smart enough to know I’d never be able to pull that off and stay in one piece. I keep to the highway, which actually provides plenty of its own thrills. But as I pointed out in the ...

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