This is a collection of true stores and adventures that began in the 1950's and continues to the present day. The tales are both hair-raising and hilarious, spanning many countries. During these journeys, the author traveled on planes, trains and automobiles, as well as on-foot, bicycle, motorbike and by boat (usually as crew or as captain). He had fun with explosives, and skirted armed conflicts. The following is a kaleidoscopic taste of what the reader has in store: ... a Jaguar roaring as he began his evening hunt, and again at dawn as he clocks out for the night; riding with my friends to Speed Week at the Bonneville Salt Flats, then being convinced to "Run What Ya Brung", clocking a respectable 156 MPH on my Yamaha FJR 1300 motorcycle; along with the cook, a hysterical chase of a greasy runaway roast in the rocking galley of a crab boat in a rough sea; bribing the night guard of an archeological site in Guatemala so my girlfriend and I could sit at the top of a temple in the full moon; skiing on a glacier in Bolivia at 16,000 feet of elevation.
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