Life Without A Windshield

By the time he turned 23, Austen James was unemployed, had a 5150 to a psychiatric hospital, and cops swarming his front yard. He was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion and went through repeated arrest, psychiatric abuse, and a police chase. To recover from the complete eradication of everything he ever thought he was supposed to be, he took a radical step. He got rid of his belongings, fixed up a wrecked motorcycle, left his loved ones behind, and undertook a year-long journey around the continent, all alone. Here is the absorbing chronicle of how he lived that year. An intensely articulate, sensible, moving and funny memoir on life on the road-Life without a Windshield is about the adventures that can transpire when one conducts the ultimate human experiment. Continue the story at AUSTEN.TV