Travel Adventure Writing

The journey down memory road is a coming-of-age excursion into the past taking armchair explorers on an odyssey of life, love, and loneliness. Fate throws two people together, and tragedy compels them to stay as one even though they both know they'd be better apart. MEMORY ROAD TRIP is a diary of growth composed of brutally honest musings and retrospective tales. Youth and naivety are unabashedly displayed as the author explores certain parts of the globe while simultaneously discovering her contemplative self. Alcoholism is an unspoken companion that goes along for the ride in a pre-Covid ...

Fed up with questions about what he was going to do when he retired, Edward decided to get on his bicycle and ride from Le Havre to the Mediterranean. He struggled in Normandy to get directions from old men tipsy on Calvados by 9 am, passed by prairies of corn and acres of sunflowers, and hit his stride on the towpath of the Burgundy canal. He explored the mystery of what an ouvrier eats for lunch, and was barred from a swimming pool because his trunks were too decent.

QUARTZSITE STORIES features 13 stories about Quartzsite, Arizona from Gypsy Jane Finley’s now discontinued website Wanderings: Living the Ordinary Extraordinarily (Stories from the Road). Her Quartzsite stories are based on both her travels to Quartzsite in a Mazda Pickup truck with a tiny box-shaped Stubby camper on the back during five years of full-time RVing that started in the year 2000 – on what she calls FREEDOM DAY – and starting in 2005 on her half-time RVing and half-time living in a mobile home in Quartzsite, Arizona at the Desert Gardens RV Park every year up to the ...

ANIMAL STORIES features 14 selected stories from Gypsy Jane Finley’s now discontinued website Wanderings: Living the Ordinary Extraordinarily (Stories from the Road). Her animal stories were written during five years of full-time RVing in a Mazda Pickup truck with a tiny box-shaped Stubby camper on the that started in the year 2000 – on what she calls FREEDOM DAY – and starting in 2005 while she was half-time RVing and half-time living in a mobile home in Quartzsite, Arizona at the Desert Gardens RV Park every year up to the present time. The stories in this book were all written by ...

Nacho Dean es un joven de 35 años que ha cumplido un sueño: ser el primer español en la historia en dar la vuelta al mundo a pie. En tres años ha atravesado 4 continentes y ha recorrido 33.000 km. Durante el camino presenció un atentado terrorista en Bangladesh, escuchó dingos aullando alrededor de su tienda de campaña en Australia, le intentaron asaltar con machetes miembros de las maras en El Salvador, estuvo frente a un rinoceronte en las junglas de Nepal, contrajo la fiebre chikungunya en México, probó la ayahuasca en Perú...

In this installment of his Detours Into the Paranormal series, author and adventurer Denver Michaels travels the Sunshine State in search of mysteries. He explores mound sites, the Green Swamp, visits a demon-possessed doll in Key West, and much more. From the stories of disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle to the discovery of giant skeletons, Michaels falls in love with Florida one mystery at a time—so much so, he moves there.

La ciudad de Trogir es una pequeña joya escondida en la costa Dálmata que no muchos conocen fuera de Croacia, sobre todo si tenemos en cuenta otras ciudades mucho más turísticas como Dubrovnik o Split, de la que la separan tan solo 26 kilómetros.

Originally pursuing a circumnavigation, the journey took the author and his vessel on a 7,000-mile voyage to Hawaii, Tonga, Fiji, and finally, to New Caledonia, where Salt Peter met her end. It was a journey of discovery, both physically and spiritually, with a range of experience to last a lifetime. I invite you to join me on this year-long adventure and experience with me an honest, uncomplicated, and enriching interaction with the seemingly endless ocean and volatile sky and discover with me the rewards of taking a chance.

En plena fiebre por los ochomiles y las cimas del mundo, el viajero guipuzcoano Josu Iztueta enroló a un grupo de expedicionarios para recorrer durante nueve meses las depresiones geográficas más profundas de la Tierra. "Nunca he tomado una decisión tan rápida, tan clara, tan feliz", recuerda el autor de este libro, Ander Izagirre, veinte años después de participar en la expedición Pangea.

The life you are living is a reflection of what you believe you deserve. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have your dreams come true? To wish for something and have it come into your life as if by magic? The magic is within you. Join manifestation goddess Sunni Boehme as she travels from Milwaukee to Majorca, from Piccadilly to Paradise, from Gothenburg to Golan, all the while fulfilling her wildest dreams of laughter, luxury, and love.

Taking the Risk is Hilary Bradt’s engaging, insightful, amusing and sometimes alarming memoir about serendipitous adventures in travel and publishing. A travel industry trailblazer who co-founded Bradt Guides, Hilary looks back on 50 years of escapades, surprises, mishaps, disasters… and success. From her first solo trip aged three (on a British beach), she revisits six decades of hitchhiking, feeding the travel habit by working abroad, and starting a successful travel publishing company where knowing nothing proved a surprising asset.

Is it impossible to be lonely, or is loneliness an impossibly difficult thing? In the first part of this book, Chinle Miller wanders the desert and mountains with her dogs, exploring nature and an inner life of solitude, until an event happens that shakes her life to its core - her best friend and cousin Janie is killed by a grizzly in Alaska.

Charles Darwin was appointed naturalist aboard the H.M.S. Beagle, which left England in 1831 to map the coast of South America and then circumnavigate the globe. As Darwin explored, he came to dispute the idea that catastrophic upheaval created mountains and shaped the earth - and if geological change came slowly, could not living species also evolve the same way?

Los pormenores de la existencia en este maravilloso país centroamericano, bañado por las aguas del Océano Pacífico al oeste y el mar Caribe por el este. Sui historia, geografía, economía, sociedad, manifestaciones culturales, y mucho más, en un audio que Usted no se puede perder.

Man of the World is the gripping account of the first year of British adventurer Graham Hughes's daring Guinness World Record attempt to visit every country on Earth using only surface-based transportation, told with refreshing candor in his own words. Buckle up for a rib-tickling multinational caper of courage, tenacity, love, friendship, danger, panic, passport stamps, and geo-politics washed down with copious amounts of alcohol.

Auf einem modernen Kreuzfahrtschiff einmal um die Welt. Im Stil der klassischen Reiseerzählung nimmt der Autor Michael Zilz seine Zuhörer mit auf eine packende Reise um den Globus. Neben traumhaften Destinationen und spannenden Hintergrundgeschichten, beschreibt er die Charaktere so mancher Passagiere. Er berichtet über positive und packende Momente, aber auch über tragische Geschehnisse auf dieser Kreuzfahrt um die Erde.

In 1989 Dave Bricker set off across the Gulf Stream, in a small sailboat, with $30 in his pocket. His voyages aboard The Blue Monk, through the Bahamas and across the Atlantic to Gibraltar, are recounted in vivid prose. The Blue Monk is a journey of self-discovery set in a world of saturated colors, remarkable people, hazardous reefs, and transcendent beauty.

Can you combine wanderlust and motherhood? Margo Weinstein did. For decades, Margo Weinstein escaped her demanding legal practice by kayaking, whitewater rafting, trekking, and climbing in remote regions. Then she had a son and found herself in the kiddie pool on a Disney cruise.

Whether he's chasing sailfish in Panama or hunting dove and quail deep in Mexico, Gordon England pursues outdoor sports with a passion for the biggest and best. In this collection he catches huge dolphin in the Exumas, races motocross through woods both on and off the trails, hunts ducks in brutal Texas snow and ice, hooks hopelessly large blue marlin in Nassau, and gets lost at sea in a monstrous Gulf of Mexico storm.

In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. Deng Xiaoping was clamping down on 'Spiritual Pollution'; young people were rebelling. With his long hair, jeans and artistic friends, Ma Jian was under surveillance. One day he bought a train ticket to the westernmost border of China and set off in search of himself.