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A cross-country bicycle adventure becomes an audiobook and album
For most people, moving across the country involves a moving truck and careful planning. For Haskins, Ohio native Matt Palka, it meant buying a used bicycle for $100, tieing on pots and pans, canned foods and a guitar strapped across the handlebars, and with $600, pedaling from Ohio to California with determination and curiosity.
That remarkable journey has now become Moment In The Sun, an audiobook accompanied by an original soundtrack album. Together, the recordings relate the true story of a young man chasing a dream while discovering people, places and unexpected moments that shape his life.
The project is more than a memoir, employing cinematic sound design, narration and original songs to allow listeners to travel alongside Palka. “I always wanted to put people on my handlebars…