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title: "Dreaming of Jupiter"
brand: "ted simon"
price: "$137581"
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# Dreaming of Jupiter

**Brand:** ted simon
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## Customer Reviews

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    Arduous
  

*by B***L on Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2021*

Several years ago I read Jupiter’s Travels and had considered it to be a well-written and engaging account of Ted Simon’s 1974 journey around the world atop his Triumph motorcycle. Fast forward to 2001, Ted retraces the same route from nearly 30 years prior. This time he is 67 years old. He is wiser, older, with a bigger, more reliable motorcycle. But where Jupiter’s Travels was brilliant in painting scenes of the world and of humanity through the lens of a fresh-eyed, optimistic soul, who was able to eagerly accept what challengers and wonders lay ahead of him, Dreaming of Jupiter gets old quickly. The exuberance felt in the original book is replaced with sobering accounts of the current state of the world in 2001. The positive tone of the original is replaced with the constant humorless critiques of downtrodden locales. His insightful firsthand accounts of the splendors (and trials) of each visited country, town, and village, have all been replaced with disappointments. It becomes clear early into the book that Ted wasn’t genuinely trying to see the world anew on that same route but rather, deep down inside he probably wished to travel back in time to experience it as he had before.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    I liked the effort
  

*by D***Y on Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2022*

If you're still reading Dream of Jupiter, you may want to stop reading this review now. I may have introduced too many spoilers.I enjoyed much of it, especially seeing a 70+-year-old get back on the bike and keep going. However, the writing was nothing special, and I think he struggled to make sense of it all.  The initial thought of repeating a trip from 30 years before plus the commentary on the change he observed made sense, but he just couldn't get past his nostalgia for the past and sadness over the change.  He claims to be an optimist and to love meeting people along the way, but he often seems frustrated with people and as the book progresses, he just wants to be done with it.  Perhaps the saddest part is an old guy falling in love and then not getting past his own issues.  Still, I find parts of it valuable, especially his openness about his fears, his often dropping of the bike, his problems along the way.  It makes riding in the U.S. seem pretty simple.  So I appreciate what he did and wrote.  I'm just sad that he couldn't pull it all together in a way that didn't seem like he was struggling to relive something from his past and failing, to find meaning as he ages.  Perhaps I identify with him too much----I'm reaching the point of retirement, and the only bright spot I see is my daughter.  I'm almost ashamed to admit it, and I don't want to be a burden on her to provide meaning to my life.  Ted Simon ends in a similar place.  I hope he finds some peace and contentment.

### ⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Not particularly good
  

*by T***R on Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2020*

I am age 72 and have been riding motorcycles about 55 years.  I read a lot and have read many, many round the world and adventure tour books. I read Jupiter’s Travels when first published.  I was not particularly fond of it and that is how I feel about this one too.  More motorcycling, less save the world and less politics please.

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