I paged through my passport and found an entry stamp to Chile. The driver pushed this aside, to expose, much to my surprise, piles and piles of money. Its trunk light came on to reveal a crumpled sheet of thick plastic. He’s the son of the Yugoslavian ambassador to Perú, and he doesn’t like Americans.” In the place where my watch normally rested was now only a patch of untanned white skin.
I looked at the droplets for some time before I realized they were blood.Īfter thirty seconds, I threw up the tea. The taxi sat by the side of the road, its windshield spattered with orange-red droplets. I rounded the corner and came upon the carnage. I woke to find myself staring into the eyes of the world’s largest cockroach. Getting through the day becomes much easier when dotted with kisses from women you meet. My dreamy recollections came to an abrupt halt when once again I found myself in Ecuador, regarding the ominous line of stern-faced mercenaries with AK-47s.Ī kiss is a nice greeting. Random Adventurous Snippet (curious-reader traps): The best way I can communicate Walter Rhein’s voice and the scope of the book is to offer a random array of quotes: Read this and you encounter: giant cockroaches, being robbed, Machu Picchu, AK47’s, Chilean jails, medical crises, peanut butter, transient friendships, bribery, murder, a race through the mountains, being robbed again…He does not advocate that everyone should actually travel recklessly the best alternative is to let Walter do the walking and talking…and just follow him via the comfort of this book. Visa issues and adventure take him to Venezuela and Chile-so he was not bound to Peru. He accurately portrays the consequences of traveling without a plan, which is fraught with fun and danger. The author’s style is welcoming the story is adventurous and peppered with philosophical depth. Spending a decade in Peru, initially as short-time tourist one who did not speak the local language, Walter recaps his own entrapment: his muse anchored him in a foreign land. My reading mirrored that of the author’s experience. Equally concerned for Walter’s health and excited about what he experienced, I had no choice but to neglect my to-read pile dominated by dark fantasy. I did not set out to read a travel biography, but a chance crossing of a Facebook post had me ensnared. Walter Rhein’s introductory chapter to Reckless Traveler, available online and in the eBook preview, trapped me as quick as I glanced at it. Travel is education without agenda."- Walter Rhein "Travel helps separate what is real from what is not.
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