How far would you travel – in a car or on a motorcycle – to re-create the journey of a favorite author? Would 2,800 miles be too much for your pilgrimage? For 50 years, travelers informally known as ...
Fifty years ago, America took a motorcycle ride that doubled as an exploration into the human mind. Amid a long struggle with mental illness, the author and philosopher Robert M. Pirsig invited the ...
Robert M. Pirsig’s 1966 Honda Super Hawk Motorcycle. Photograph by Jaclyn Nash, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will mark the ...