Roads From the Ashes: An Odyssey in Real Life on the Virtual Frontier

(Paperback, 2nd New edition)

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20th anniversary e-book edition of this evocative travel and Internet history memoir with a new introduction by the author, foreword by best-selling author Chris Epting, and 22 color photographs

Making lemonade: the authors six-year odyssey began in the wake of a California wildfire that destroyed her home and possessions

Sudden stufflessness: how shocking loss can offer some of lifes greatest gifts

With humor and insight, the author chronicles the birth and growth of the World Wide Web while criss-crossing North America with her husband and dog in their one-of-a-kind motorhome.

Home is where your dog is. The path to embracing life on a roll and living in the moment

Acoustic couplers, anyone A humorous look at primitive mobile devices and the challenges of staying connected while traveling in a dial-up world.

Traveling America: from California to Maine and Alberta to Key West, a journey across the continent in the mid-1990s, when OJ Simpson was on trial, most cameras still required film, and home page first entered the vernacular.

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Edwards explores matters of identitytrying on new labels like homeless, unemployed, finding that they dont fit, and that the old labels dont either. There is also the inevitability of tension, bickering, of outright civil warfare in such close quarters, as well as the ability of a well-placed geothermal hot spring to heal heart, soul and marriage." -Tiffany Pace, Mind Bets (June, 2019)
This is an excellent memoir, originally published twenty years ago but well worth the re-run. By the end you will find yourself appreciating the introduction of life as the Edwards lived it for the seven years they traveled. An excellent picture of California life in the 1990s, the personal pain of losing all you possess in a single day, and the joys and angsts of following your heart down back country roads in a four wheel drive motorhome. -Bonnie Reed Fry, Goodreads.com
"This is a book to stir dreams of distant places, a remarkable journey down unknown roads of travel and self-exploration. Edwards relates the stories of their Amrican adventures and misadventures in the compelling style of a novelist, with humor, drama and brilliant imagery. A journey worth taking." --Al Martinez, Los Angeles Times (from a review of the 1999 edition)

Author Bio

Megan Edwards is the award-winning author of FULL SERVICE BLONDE, GETTING OFF ON FRANK SINATRA, and STRINGS: A LOVE STORY. All three novels were first-place winners of Benjamin Franklin book awards in 2018. She also won the Silver 2019 IPPY Award for FULL SERVICE BLONDE. Edwards is also the author of ROADS FROM THE ASHES: AN ODYSSEY IN REAL LIFE ON THE VIRTUAL FRONTIER, a memoir of her five-year adventure living and working on the road during the dawn of the Internet. At home in Las Vegas, Nevada, where there's never a shortage of fascinating material and inspiration, Edwards is working on her next novel.