‘Long Road Hard Lessons’-A Story of father-son bonding
Dr Amit Nagpal : Mark, Tell us about your book ‘Long Road Hard Lessons ’ and why do you call them hard lessons? Mark Swain -The book is about a 10,000 mile cycle journey with my son from Ireland to Japan. I called the book, “Long Road Hard Lessons” because it was a very intense journey where my son was often angry with me during the whole 9 months. It was also a very long and physically hard journey. Dr Nagpal : What was your son's experience? Sum it in brief. Mark : Sam felt that he couldn't have any control during the trip (about things like where we stop, the direction we take etc) because I was paying for the trip. It was frustrating for him. I tried to tell him it didn't matter but he couldn't get out of that mentality. Dr Nagpal : What was your experience in India & how was it different from Japan (in terms of culture, people etc) Mark : We both found India the most exciting country of the trip. So much vibrancy. Such nice, happy people who were so...