A Mexican Odyssey: Escape to Paradise

by William Reed

Bill Reed's memoir, A Mexican Odyssey, is an amazing journey spanning 32-years of living, loving and getting around in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9709404709
• ISBN13: 9789709404708
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Garces Books
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

What An Adventure Story!

Our kids just returned from a vacation in Puerto Vallarta. Among all the Mexican souvenir gifts they brought back, our favorite is the book, "A Mexican Odyssey," which we read cover to cover over the weekend. What an adventure story! We could hardly believe Bill Reed lived such a life--writer, lover, art gallery owner, tour boat operator, troubadour, part-time gentleman, full-time mover and shaker, and a married man to boot? (God bless Sylvia; she must be the epitomy of a Mexican saint.) We've heard that wild and crazy guys really do exist out there in the world, but Reed is surely a cut above the rest. My husband loved his tall tales (especially the fishing, the scubing diving, and the raising hell over town stories) and I enjoyed reading about Reed's gradual realization that, if it weren't for a loving, supportive, and an obviously wiser-than-my-husband-is wife, men couldn't do squat! What a fun book to read!

Memories of a Paradise

Bill Reed is a fabulous writer. I have read several of his books and they all are fascinating. I loved "A Mexican Odyssey". It is engaging, witty, and full with a great sense of humour, and a love story woven within its pages. It brings back memories of a Paradise, where people were not afraid to live their dreams. I highly recommend this book!

Truth IS more incredible than fiction!

Bill Reed is the human equivalent of a cat - he's packed nine lives worth of excitement and adventure into one lifetime. "A Mexican Odyssey" is an eminently readable account of his life, an engaging biography which proves that - in some rare instances - truth is more incredible than fiction. Highly recommended!

The Life of an Expatriate

Move over Ernest Hemingway...William Reed is a man who has lived life hard and knows how to write about it - from working for the CIA in Turkey to galavanting through Mexico from one adventure to another. This is the perfect book to take on a trip South of the Border, to be read in the Blue Iguana - or any other Mexican cafe - with tequila in hand. It also was quite good when I read it in my home in the U.S.. There are many books about the history that Reed lived through, or the geography of those localities, but it is the people and their histories that draw us that give a place its character. Just as Key West will always be associated with Hemingway for me, now so will Puerto Vallarta always be linked to the remarkable William Reed.

Reed's Rum and Rhetoric

Entertaining history of Puerto Vallarta characters, brilliantly woven by one of it's own...hilarious, irreverent, unputdownable.