Easy Rider



In 1993 my sister learned to drive a motorcycle -- while riding it cross country, from Pittsburgh to my place in San Francisco. She weathered floods, rain -- even snow on her way West -- in July.

Carolla finally gave me the scoop on her trip (she mainly spared me the scariest details while en route) when she was dealing with something much scarier -- terminal cancer.

Carolla's boyfriend Ted, also a motorcycle rider, is sending me the motorcycle jacket she wore through it all. It looks like it's really lived, just like Carolla.

That's a picture of Carolla wearing the jacket and sitting on her BMW 650 in front of my pad when I lived in the Haight.

You can hear in her own words the story of her ride across country at Bside radio.