On Freedom Road combines two things you wouldn’t normally place together: long distance bike riding and the Underground Railroad. But in Goodrich’s book, they manage to work together. Aside from traveling on foot, tracing the paths of the routes of the Underground Railroad by bike is probably the only way to approximate the slow-moving journeys of the enslaved people on their quest for freedom, in a way that driving would certainly not. From Louisiana to Delaware, New York to Ontario, and points in between, Goodrich visits spots that have been largely forgotten or no longer exist as they once did, as well as the more famous locations and museums commemorating the heroes of the railroad and their struggles for freedom.