GOT2GO: How I rode around the world on a motorcycle solo and what I learned along the way (English Edition)

Your family. Your friends. Your job. Your language. Your life, as you know it. Imagine you leave all of this behind, and just go on a ride around the world. 18 months, 50 countries, 90.000 kilometers of adventure.

In her travelogue, Lea Rieck tells a touching story of falling and getting up again, of courage and serenity, faith in oneself and other people, empathy, hope and determination. About setting out – but not to learn to fear the world, but to find adventure, friendship and love.
The moment that changes everything can come at any time. For Lea Rieck, it‘s a normal Monday morning in the office when she sees a colleague watering a plant with Evian mineral water. She quits her job, leaves her comfort zone and sets off on a trip around the world.
Just her motorcycle Cleo and her, all alone.
But what do you do when there‘s a military coup right in front of your window? If your lover turns out to be a Russian sniper? Or if you burn your eyes in the highest altitude desert of the world? You learn your lesson and move on.
The journey takes Lea past 8,000-meter-high mountains in Pakistan, through temples in India, to the safe shores of Australia, into the driest desert in the world in Chile and Bolivia – and in the end back to Germany. Breathlessly, she lets her intuition and instincts guide her, experiences the highs and lows of traveling alone, begins to see the world from a different angle, and discovers life in all its different facets and forms.

“‘Dwell in the land and you shall be fed.‘ – that is out of the question for Lea Rieck. The more adventurous, the better. The worst journeys, she says, are the best.” Hans Magnus Enzensberger

„Absolutely worth reading” – Podcast Cosmopolitan

“Lea Rieck […] convinces with polished language and clever analyses […] a brilliant read with challenges and surprises even for non-motorcyclists. One wants to go on riding with Lea forever.” – Motorrad Magazin

“Wittily written, but still very close to heart […] a real page-turner!“ – Motorrad Abenteuer