How to React When Woken at 3am by Drunk Argentinian Backpackers While Staying in a Youth Hostel and Other Lesser Known Travel Tips
Simon Yeats
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GENRE:
Non-Fiction
Humorous Memoir
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BLURB:
Book 4 of the hilarious book series that those in the know will
want to read when arriving at Paris airport so they laugh so freaking hard that
it will intimidate any suspicious characters looking to abduct them and sell
them into the human trafficking game.
Life
was not meant to be easy, Simon Yeats’ father used to tell him. Well, it sure
as hell was not meant to be this bizarre and witty. Australian ex-pat Simon
Yeats shares his stories of travel misadventures and dubious personal
introspection with comedic insights into the unusual and uproarious elements of
living his life abroad. All while having a sense of Wanderlust as pervasive as
Mongol hordes in the 12th century.
From
how to negotiate getting abused in Los Angeles when you will only drive at 5
miles/hr., to what to do when locked out of your hotel room in your underwear,
to the emotions of attempting the world’s second highest bungee when you have a
pathological fear of heights, to how to deal with the trials and tribulations
of staying in a youth hostel with travelers who have no respect for the other
guests.
Simon
Yeats has gone into the world and experienced all the out of the ordinary
moments for you to sit back and enjoy the experience without the need to empty
your bank account, get squeezed sitting in a middle airline seat, or deal with
border security at the Ukraine/Russia boundary.
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EXCERPTS (Please choose only ONE to use
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Excerpt One:
Big Wednesday
was my first day at work as a liftie on the Burgess Creek lift at the Steamboat
ski resort as a wide-eyed 20-year-old. I do not remember the exact date, but I
am absolutely certain it was a Wednesday because everyone who was present at
the resort that day referred to it as ‘big Wednesday.’
Overnight,
between ‘ordinary Tuesday’ and ‘big Wednesday,’ the town and resort received a
mammoth amount of snowfall. It absolutely dumped. A biblical amount of snow.
Even though I do not recall snow being mentioned once in either the old
testament or the new testament. But I could have missed the reference.
And Moses went
up the mountain at God’s direction and there was fresh dump of powder snow, and
he cried out, “ye verily, gonna cut me some wicked turns.”
To get to work
on my first day, I take the shortcut straight down the hill to the main road
and bus stop. I am decked out in my official Steamboat resort onesie ski suit.
The snow level is over my belly button. It is like wading through waist high
surf for a half mile.
I scramble onto
the bus, and I am on my knees huffing and puffing while dripping with sweat.
An inauspicious start to the day.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
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With an overwhelming love of travel, a propensity to find trouble
where there was none, and being a passionate advocate of mental health, Simon’s
stories will leave a reader either rolling on the floor in tears of laughter,
or breathing deeply that the adventures he has led were survived.
No author has laughed longer or cried with less restraint at the
travails of life.
Amazon Author Page:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0CBNQLSPW/about
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GIVEAWAY:
The author will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner.
Thank you so much for featuring THE LESSER KNOWN TRAVEL TIPS series.
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