From inveterate off-beaten path traveler, long-time Silicon Valley tech veteran and now first-time author, comes this travel book. At 50-ish and embarking on one full year's escape from the go-go rat race, what ensues are immersive first-time discoveries and varied learnings about our extraordinary world. Also chronicled are many ridiculous moments and self-effacing ones including that rumble on a forest floor. The traverses span Africa, Arctic, Asia and much more, with 250+ images from places afar and off grid adventures... the sorties span both land and many into our fragile oceans... At times irreverent, it is primarily a chronicle of first-time immersions and of important learnings that lead to a far greater respect for the world others live in.

"Cold-cocked! Dropped! Lightning in a bottle! I did not see it coming. Sure, this brute is jacked-ripped and it was always going to be one longshot; however... no chance to even set... suss out... shit-talk... or make contact. Felled as if a tree... No whodunnit here. Savage!"


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