Last July, we brought you a review of Landings in America: Two People, One Summer, and a Piper Cub, the latest book by Peter Egan, a senior statesman of motojournalism. I thought very highly of Egan’s latest work, which joins his many other books and innumerable articles for Cycle World and Road & Track for over four decades. I was not alone.

Landings in America has won the 2026 Silver Medal in the Travel category by the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA). Landings stood alongside fellow Silver Medal winner Beer, Brats, and Cheese: A Wisconsin Road Trip, which I might have to read and do further research on author Heather Kerrigan’s discoveries.

Here’s how the IBPA describes Egan’s Landings in America: “In 1987, Peter Egan and his wife Barb fly a 1945 Piper Cub across America on a six-week, 7,000-mile journey. Landings in America blends adventure, memoir, and humor as they encounter unforgettable people and places — quietly searching for a new home and rediscovering the spirit of exploration.”

I summed the book up, saying: “Peter Egan is not only among the very best motorcycle journalists, but also one of the best all-around writers. He brings wit, poignancy, and insight to everything he writes. This story is told with a mix of laugh-out-loud humor, moving personal remembrance, and an unending feeling of the fun this adventure was. In Landings in America, you will read one of Egan’s best works.”

Award-winning motorsports author John Oreovicz had this to say about Egan’s latest book: “Peter Egan finds the most interesting ways to get from Point A to Point B. Best known for his writing about vintage motorcycles and cars, Landings in America — a memoir of a six-week cross-country journey with his wife in a two-seat Piper Cub airplane — is vintage Egan. You’ll learn more about America than you did in US History class and come away feeling like you were a passenger on the trip of a lifetime.”

In addition to Landings in America, I have also reviewed three compilations of Egan’s writings: Leanings, Leanings 3, and The Best of Peter Egan for our Riders Library collection.