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Once I started seeing all those deathtraps out there, I couldn't shake my curiosity. I wanted to jump on and circumnavigate the planet on that unseen artery of mass transit. I wanted to know what it was like on the ferries that killed people daily, the buses that plunged off cliffs, the airplanes that crashed. I wanted to travel around the world as most of the people in the world did, putting their lives at risk every time they took off on...

This is the first book. That wasn‘t made clear and both audiobooks were released on the exact same day, so whoops. This one is just as funny as Getting Stoned with Savages, and they were definitely in a more remote area in this one. Even his descriptions of returning to western civilisation and having to readjust were funny. I can‘t wait to dig into Headhunters on My Doorstep.
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I live just across the river from North Dakota and it‘s a very different world on the other side of the river. They have more restaurants and then it‘s just flat land. I don‘t know why they haven‘t left yet, either.
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Do you get the impression that it was… I don‘t know… maybe… hot?
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Yeah, that‘s not what I want to hear when I‘m in a plane… I don‘t want to have to bail out of a landing attempt either.
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He wrote this kind of lovely, kind of funny story of how he and his wife met. When she read it over his shoulder, this is what she had to say about it. 🤣😂🤣
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Started this while in donating today. I‘m a little concerned how quickly my phone has adjusted to properly autocorrecting the word cannibal. 🤣😂🤣
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I wasn‘t really sure what to expect from this memoir/travelogue! My first experience with the author, this came out over two decades ago & it would be interesting to see if life on Karabati, a remote equatorial island has changed much. Troost balances coming in with paradise-like expectations & coming to see the somewhat literally sh*tty reality of island life. Watch out for the island dog chapter, but otherwise a truly fascinating listen!

I was excited to come across this book, plus there was a sequel on the shelf written something like 30 years later, but... The sex. I couldn't handle all the writing about prostitution and fellow travellers talking about their sexual adventures in these countries. I'm sad that I wasted 4 days of reading time before realising it was just going to get worse.