Brad Newsham
Author of Take Me With You: A Round-the-World Journey to Invite a Stranger Home
Works by Brad Newsham
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Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (2000) — Contributor — 234 copies
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A very interesting look at a China/Russia/Japan long gone as Newsham's trip was in 1984. Although his book was written a number of years later, it had a stronger sense of currency than did "Take me With You". Really made me think again about doing the Trans-Sib
Philippines à India à Egypt àKenya à Lamu à Tanzania à Mt. Kilimanjaro à Zimbabwe à Victoria Falls à South Africa.
“Loving the entire world was easy; personalizing it might prove tricky.” – p. 7
“Travel is like chemotherapy. You just go through it, endure it, hoping that the right things get through your to your bones, bring about some beneficial change, inspire some wisdom, and that all the others don’t kill you.” – p. 103
“It is, I know, no great feat to climb on an airplane and to go buy a meal in a foreign restaurant; but it is certainly one of the world’s most agreeable addictions.” – p. 145… (more)
“Loving the entire world was easy; personalizing it might prove tricky.” – p. 7
“Travel is like chemotherapy. You just go through it, endure it, hoping that the right things get through your to your bones, bring about some beneficial change, inspire some wisdom, and that all the others don’t kill you.” – p. 103
“It is, I know, no great feat to climb on an airplane and to go buy a meal in a foreign restaurant; but it is certainly one of the world’s most agreeable addictions.” – p. 145… (more)
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I especially enjoyed the time he spent in Kenya, as this is where we honeymooned and it reminded me of a wonderfully special time.
Read - April 2006