You are reading a book whose ending hasn't happened yet.
Get the bookChapter 1 opens the moment you buy. Then a new chapter every morning from November 7th to Thanksgiving. The last one gets written on November 1st at Highmark Stadium.
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You asked what I want for my birthday. This.
Our book. I say our, because you are in it. The man who gave me a roof. The woman who lent me a seat for one night. The biker who put me up when I had nowhere to go. The man at the gas station who said one sentence I will never forget. This is not a book about a trip around the world. It is a book about the people I met on the way, and most of you are reading this right now.
Every chapter has its day. Every day has its names.
No app store.
Put lou21.com on your home screen and it opens like a real e-reader. It remembers where you stopped and works without signal.
Every page has its day.
Each chapter carries the photos from those exact days on the road.
Why I rode
One of yours said out loud what most men never say. I heard it across the Atlantic. I was at the bottom, and I was listening.
So I got on a 2011 Vespa named Adina, put GO BILLS on the plate, and rode ten thousand miles to shake the hand of a man I had never met. Through Russia on a train, Korea on a ferry, Japan with my girl, two months waiting for Adina in a customs warehouse in Vancouver, and then across America, one day at a time.
That is how the trip was ridden. That is how this book is read. And that is the only way sobriety is lived. One day at a time.
Where every dollar goes
Every dollar from this book builds MIIN, an app for men back home in Czechia who drink too much and will never hear Jordan Poyer, because they do not speak English. A bar where nobody pours. You got that voice for free from one of your own. They will get it from you.
Order before November 1st and your name goes in the book.
Everyone who orders before the last chapter gets written goes on the last page, The Road Crew. In the app and in the paper edition. You rode the last ten days with me. That belongs in the book.
Choose your copy
I write this book in Czech, the language I think in. Lojza, the AI I work with, edits it, proofreads it, translates it and keeps the facts and the days straight. No publisher, no agent. The voice is mine. The mistakes are mine too.
Chapter 21 does not exist yet. It will be written on November 1st, after the Ravens game, and it will say whatever actually happens. I am not promising anything about that day. I am promising you will read it the morning after.
If anything goes wrong, or the book is not what you hoped, one email to [email protected] gets your money back. That is the whole policy.