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Doesn't everybody want to go on an Around The World Trip?

Taking this ultimate journey must cross the mind of almost every human being at some point in their life. Go out and see the entire World. It was a dream for me for a very long time to do it and then, wham bam thank you Mam, I just decided to go for it. After some detailed planning, I took off for a full year and circumnavigated Planet Earth. My route took me from North America to the South Pacific, through most of Asia, large parts of Europe, then on to South America, arriving back to the exact point I had left 365 days before. Africa, I had spent considerable time in already so I decided to skip it on this journey.

This book is about that trip and most of it was written while I was on the road, on beaches in Bali and Rio de Janeiro, in cafes in Fiji and Tokyo and Rome, in hotel rooms in Istanbul and Iceland and on trains bound for Macchu Picchu and Bangkok. If you're holding it in your hands and wondering whether or not to buy it, go ahead, get out the plastic, splurge a little and come along on the trip with me. The whole thing was truly amazing, full of exotic new pleasures and wonderful adventures. Some weird stuff happened too. There's always the unexpected. If you've already bought the book and are just starting to dip into it, thank you very much and let's get rolling.

I am, what you might say, a very experienced traveller. For the better part of my life, I was a film and television director and later, an executive producer, what's called a show runner in the biz. If you watch TV at all, you've certainly seen my stuff. I worked with some of the most famous actors in the world and had big successes and mighty disasters. But for me, the best part of my show business career was that I specialized in shooting films on foreign locations so I got to see a lot of the World through my work. From Hollywood, I traveled off to France and England, to Croatia and Israel, to Australia and to South Africa to make my films. I have always been seduced by the new the new town, the new experience, the new gig, the new romance, so travel became a kind of addiction for me and these filmmaking experiences are the best kind of travel you spend months on end in a new country, living there, you work with the locals, you get to hang out in their homes and in places no tourist could ever hope to find. In short, you get to experience a place and the life there deeply, in a way

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