At the heart of the eight compelling nonfiction stories and five-article appendix which make up Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah is this interesting question: What would your life mean if you were living someone else's dream of what it should be?
Expands beyond the safety of pages bound by predictability to explore and often confirm exciting creative possibilities. A shimmering collage of memoir, creative nonfiction, literary journalism, and dizzying flights into poetic observation, this is t
I'm a travel writer with no sense of direction. Actually, I'm a travel writer with no sense.
Background
Information
I'm a magnet for misfortune and an unwitting catalyst for entertaining incidents. These 'skills' allow me to travel the world, tell the tale of my exploits and turn even a routine three minute bus trip into a national newspaper headline.
I experience a mid-life crisis (based on my living to 55) every two years on average. My last one coincided with my 30th birthday and gave birth to the idea of walking out of my job on said birthday and visiting one country for each of my years on Earth.
30 countries, 9 months, 100 towns and cities and 2 marriage proposals later a book was born - '30: A Sense of Adventure and No Sense of Direction' (See 'Books').
www.thirty30.co.uk
Birth Place
Reading, England
Accomplishments
Voted 'least likely to make it through a round the world trip alive' (2003)
Cycling Proficiency Certificate (1984)