Help me celebrate the release of my new book Bars Across America: Drinking and Biking from Coast to Coast with a free party featuring the Blue Line Riders honky tonk band, Friday, April 23, in the cozy confines of Cole's pub, 2338 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Logan Square.



I'll be reading from the book and performing a few of my songs about
cycling on guitar, alternating with sets by the Riders (http://myspace.com/bluelineriders). The band kicks off the evening at 9 pm sharp.

Thanks!

John Greenfield




About Bars Across America (Pint Size Press, 160 pages, $12.95):



“As John spins his yarn across the U.S. via roads, paths and pubs,
you’ll wish at some point you’d gone along.” – Dave “Mr. Bike” Glowacz,
author of Urban Bikers’ Tips and Tricks.



In Bars Across America, longtime Chicago bike and beer
advocate John Greenfield tells the story of his 5,000-mile bike journey
from Astoria, OR, to Portland, ME, stopping to check out 48 taverns
along the way. Every other day or so he would take a break from the hot
pedaling, duck into a watering hole, jot down notes about the décor,
and get the skinny from the local barflies.



He stopped at the Silver Dollar Saloon at the bottom of a canyon in
Idaho, and Kerouac’s favorite dive in Denver. In Paxton, NE, Ole’s Big
Game Steakhouse, filled with stuffed African wildlife, was a welcome
oasis. He joined thousands on the rowdy RAGBRAI ride across Iowa, then
led a pub roll to celebrate the striping of new bike lanes on Chicago’s
Milwaukee Avenue. After experiencing a Parrothead party on the Canadian
Riviera, he reached the ocean at Revere, MA, and celebrated at the
Shipwreck Lounge, sadly destined for the wrecking ball.



Along the way Greenfield met other scruffy cyclists, cowboys, carnies
and lonely ex-cons. Part travelogue, part guidebook, part ode to the
vanishing community tap, Bars Across America is the story of one man’s two-wheeled trek in search of the perfect pint.