Vacation Boy: Does This Count as a Career?

This collection of fun true stories takes the reader to 34 countries around the world, following the winding “career path” of the sometimes hapless, often joyful and always evolving Vacation Boy. The book is about taking life by the horns and riding that unpredictable bronco around the world, leaving no regrets on the table, even if the ride results in a few bruises along the way. It is less a compilation of travel stories than the sum of the parts of a life lived differently. The book is packed with 200 pictures, which open windows into amazing corners of the globe.

Whether struggling with a cantankerous bike while riding along the remote Chinese border with Burma, kayaking through Venice, dodging malevolent minnows & leeches in a Malaysian jungle or competing in the world's largest BBQ competition, the humorous adventures draw readers out of their armchairs and into places they never knew were there to visit. Think Into the Wild, but without the unhappy ending. You'll laugh, gasp and want to know what happens next!

Table of Contents

•Vacation Boy Comes to Life (Dominican Republic)
•Japanese Love Hotels (Japan)
•Mosquitoes, Chickens and Tarantulas (Dominican Republic)
•Descending Mountains Without Shoes or Sobriety (U.S., Canada)
•“Get Down Here!” (U.S.)
•Drunks Falling off Horses and Fun with Chicken Busses (Guatemala)
•In Pursuit of a Shower (Japan)
•Eluding Leeches and Losing My Pants (Thailand)
•Explosive Bali Diving (Indonesia)
•Painful Encounters with Fish and Friends (Malaysia)
•Screw It, I’m Going to Greece (Greece)
•“Is That Someone Asleep Behind the Register?” (France)
•Paris to Dakar—My Metaphorical Road Race (France, Morocco, Senegal)
•The Krishna Bike, the Frenchman & the Comfort Biker (U.S.)
•How Not to Make a Great First Impression (Ecuador)
•The High Speed Chinese Bus Chase (China)
•“Making Coats with Kittens?” (My Chinese needs improvement!) (China)
•The Off-Genre Superhero Track Meet (China)
•Chasing Bore Tides (China)
•The First Halloween in Hangzhou (China)
•Mom Says I Shouldn’t Have Gone to the Tiger Leaping Gorge (China)
•Racing the Slow Red River (China)
•My Son and Angkor What? (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos)
•A Father’s Perspective on Travel with Vacation Boy (Myanmar)
•Fixing a Bike across South China (China)
•Corporate Boy: the Korean Christening (South Korea)
•Corporate Boy Goes Around the World in 30 Days (India, Japan, Australia)
•"We're Not on a Pilgrimage; We're on a Business Trip!" (India)
•Carving Up Whales and Rental Safaris (South Africa)
•Launching the Crimson Poobah in Baja (Mexico)
•Fun with Unsunken Boats and Dental Hygienists (Fiji, New Zealand)
•A Kayaking Quest for Conch (Bahamas)
•In Search of Gasoline (U.S.)
•Just Drop Me Off in the Desert (Kuwait)
•Hosing Down a Naked Frenchman (France)
•The Crimson Poobah Takes on Venice (Italy)
•Partying with Parisian Thieves (France)
•Introducing BBQ Boy! (U.S.)
•My Butt’s on Fire! (U.S.)
•It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Madagascar World! (Madagascar)
•Racing in Istanbul Traffic to Kayak the Lycian Coast (Turkey)
•Strawberry Underwear & Rainbow Wigs (France, Switzerland, West Germany, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia)