this here book is a great book for you kids out there wantin to travel and need the push to get out the door or just plain vicarious fun for sittin on the couch with your favorite pipe. the advise given comes from experience and not a soap box and the stories are fun and give you a want for some of your own. i would recomend this book to the most tenative folk to the most extreme traveler, after all theres a teacher in all of us. keep your beginers mind, and who knows where you'll wander off to.