My Year of Skiing Dangerously: Taos, New Mexico
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There I was in Taos, New Mexico with my life going downhill fast. What was a guy to do? It seemed the only thing left was to get a job at the local ski resort. What happened next was a winter of mad thrills, sharing the slopes with Julia Roberts, Donald Rumsfeld, and more damsels in distress than I could invent in a lifetime of writing pulp fiction. ¨My Year of Skiing Dangerously¨ is the result of this slippery time, a piece of writing in which I start out dangling from a rope thirty feet above the snow and get into even more trouble as the season progresses. What is it like, you may wonder, for a middle-aged writer to go to work each day on skis, cruising snowy trails with a radio antennae bristling from his vest, in search of danger? After publishing more than a dozen novels, I've discovered that true life is definitely more exciting than fiction. Stay tuned for further misadventures from around the globe, starting with an account of my year playing jazz piano in Vietnam, ¨Hanoi Blues: Strange Adventures in the Ivory Trade.¨
Title: My Year of Skiing Dangerously: Taos, New Mexico
Sales Rank: 1408861 in Books
Author: Robert Westbrook
Publisher: Amazon, 2006-05-23, Digital
- Real Skiing Tales
- I know Westbrook from his many mystery tales, and this continues his long tradition of fine writing. In this and his other essays, he adds a sense of humor that is refreshing. Fun read! He shows us the real side of life at a real ski area, Taos Ski Valley. I ski at this big mountain/small resort every week from November into April, and… More reviews
- A bit of fun in Taos Ski Valley
- If you ski Taos often like I do, you'll recognize the people, the places, the runs he mentions. If not, it's an introduction to the place, you might even consider it a bit of a warning that Taos is a challenging place to ski and a lesson or two isn't out of place once you get there.
Robert Westbrook's short starts slow but then gets… More reviews
