THE JOURNEY TO ME

Finding freedom in the inconvenient realities of existence

Travelling solo for more than 33,000 miles on a motorcycle taught Annette Birkmann to experience the unknown not as fraught with danger but as providing endless opportunities.

’Every time I have reached a goal in my life, it has been with the expectation that once this goal is achieved, everything will from then on be fine – I will be free, I will be happy. But things seldom work out that way.’

At the age of thirty-one, Annette left her job as a lawyer in Denmark, sold her belongings, and travelled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to fulfill a childhood dream: to ride a motorcycle.

In Buenos Aires, Annette bought her first motorcycle and after working eight months in a motorcycle workshop, embarked alone on a one-year motorcycle journey through the Americas. However, she quickly discovered that despite moving to another hemisphere, some things remained unchanged. Her problems had come along, and no matter where she was, familiar traits lodged in her inner self required her attention.

The Journey to Me is now available on your local Amazon site. Click here if you want to read The Journey to Me in Danish.

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Literary reviews

“A captivating and life-affirming story.”
- Din boganmelder

“There is something to think about when you’ve read the book.”
- Bogsyn

"Well-written and ruthlessly honest account of an outer and inner journey. Although we hear about beautiful landscapes and the joy of riding a motorcycle, it is not a travel book in the usual sense. Rather, it is more an existential adventure of becoming, set in a foreign and often demanding environment."
- DBC (Danish Library Center)

Reader’s Review

“I bought "The Journey to Me" as an audiobook and I was completely spellbound. Got to bed too late because I couldn’t stop. Annette writes very, very honestly and therefore in my view her travel diary doesn’t have the slightly clichéd pathos that often characterizes travel literature. It honestly describes a troubled mind, loneliness, aggression and despair ... as well as the joy of freedom, nature and being able to decide for yourself. Very inspiring if you want inspiration to travel or to get to know yourself better and find out what life you want to live."

- Christina N.