The art and adventure of traveling cheaply

By Rick Berg

226 pages This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0915904373
• ISBN13: 9780915904372
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: And/Or Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

It shaped my future

Came across this book in the public library when I was about fourteen. It was a paperback, jammed into a wire rack with the lurid romances and murder-mysteries and other "not worthy of being shelved" books. For some reason, I picked it up. Got hooked. Took it home. Renewed it over and over. Finally just stole it. It became the compass that shaped my teenage years. I dreamed one future for myself: I would get out of school and then do what the author did -- bum around the world, having adventures in offbeat places and living by my wits. When I confessed my ambition, grown-ups laughed at me. But the passion and fire this book lit inside of me was unspeakably amazing. Every kid needs a burning dream; this book crystallized mine. I was 22 when I struck out on my own at last. Thank you, Rick Berg! You'll never know how your little book hit one teenage girl square in the heart. If you're still out there, drop me a line :-)