Round America with a Duck is now available globally. Read a sample. Order in the USA on Amazon, Bookshop.org and Booksamillion. See below for global links. View media release. Get your free book club discussion guide. It is the FIRST book in the world about traveling the USA via bike, buses, trains and working on…
Author: Pattie Baker
Writer, street photographer, urban farmer and global WWOOFer. League Cycling Instructor (#5382) and first Metro Atlanta Bicycle Mayor as part of global consortium with Amsterdam-based social enterprise BYCS. Peace Corps Uganda invitee (June 2020, derailed due to COVID-19). Former CDC Foundation Communications Specialist with State of Alaska Dept. of Health on Healthy You in 2022 project. Mensa member. See books on Amazon in all global markets (USA link: https://www.amazon.com/Pattie-Baker/e/B005JBN7ZK) and on indie book sites.
I almost quit — and now here we are
I was digging up weeds, shaking out the soil from their roots, noticing the abundance of worms on this fertile piece of land that I call home, when the truck pulled up with my box of books. The driver put it in my outstretched arms and I felt the weight of it. These weren’t proofs…
March forth!
It’s March 4th — march forth! It’s my favorite day of the year. It’s the day for fanning that small little fire that manages somehow to stay alive in our hearts, despite the constant negativity around us telling us our dreams, our callings, are not reasonable or acceptable or even possible. This is your reminder…
Free book club discussion guide
It’s time to add Round America with a Duck to your book club schedule this year! Both paperback and e-book versions are on target for release March 20, 2024. This free guide is sure to enliven your group discussion. Feel free to contact me if you want me to attend your book club virtually to…
Somehow, some way
I just got back from a week-long trip to New York. I rode my folding bike to and from the Atlanta MARTA train (including home in the pouring rain), which took me to the airport (for the first time since my journey via buses, trains and working on organic farms across the USA). I rode…
Work-in-progress
I didn’t expect to do a llama (and other camelids) tour of the USA, but there you have it. Three of the five months I was traveling Round America with a Duck I spent at locations that had camelids. Ask me about shearing and spitting. I’m the person you want to talk to at the…
The reviews are in!
It’s super humbling — and hard — to live with strangers (now friends!), do work that challenges me mentally and physically as an experiential writer, and live to tell the story! And now, the reviews are in — not of my book just yet (I’m currently working diligently on that) but by my hosts on…
Pausing a moment to run the numbers
I’m busy re-entering home life. But I paused a moment (like one of these resting llamas at the Hare Krishna temple in Utah) to run the numbers from my Round America with a Duck journey*: 175,300: Views of #RoundAmericaWithADuck on TikTok. By the way, everyone’s always asking about Bernard, from way back at the New…
