Today’s Road Read features a book by another original female travel writing voice. Jane Richman is
an ex-Morman who decided to ride a BMW motorcycle through the Salt Lake Valley. She was raised Morman but left the
Church at a young age. Although there are things about the religion that Richman can’t tolerate, her desire to
understand why her relatives traveled cross-country for their faith led her to undertake this journey to follow the
path they walked years earlier. In 2001, she traveled the 1,300 mile trail by herself, now chronicled in
Riding in the Shadows of
Saints. Here is a
detailed
review of the book and more information about Richman’s background and family history from the local paper in
Tooele, Utah, where she was raised.