Around the World in 80 Stories
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My father was a humanitarian who loved our family deeply He was a devoted flute teacher and a flautist with the Dubrovnik Symphony Occasionally, the Symphony would go on tour, and if the destination was interesting, he would bring my mom and me alongMy earliest memory as a child was during one of these trips, at a hotel in Bled, Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) I was just three years old when I planted some sticks in the snow outside the hotel Two years later, we returned to the same hotel, and to my amazement, real plants had grown in the exact spot where I had put my sticks I excitedly yelled to my dad, Look, Dad, my sticks grew into plants! Of course, he didnt have the heart to explain what had actually happened instead, he just hugged meYears later, as I reflected on that first memory, I realized the truth myselfbut the warmth of that moment stayed with me foreverHe also loved filling out the weekly TV guide crossword puzzle, which offered a color TV as the top prize The rules were strictyou had to complete it in ink, without any corrections, clip the puzzle out of the magazine, and mail it to the publisher Each week, the winners were announced in the following edition of the guideBeing the loving dad he was, he submitted the crossword puzzle under my name One week, not only did he solve the puzzle perfectly, but my name was drawn for the second prize That prize was a beautiful atlas, filled with colorful mapssome spanning two full pagesall printed on glossy paper and packed with statistics about countries and regions around the world I must have been about seven years old at the time With my first memory tied to travel and this atlas sparking my imagination, my destiny as a traveler was sealed d a color TV as the top prize The rules were strictyou had to complete it in ink, without any corrections, clip the puzzle out of the magazine, and mail it to the publisher Each week, the winners were announced in the following edition of the guide Being the loving dad he was, he submitted the crossword puzzle under my name One week, not only did he solve the puzzle perfectly, but my name was drawn for the second prize That prize was a beautiful atlas, filled with colorful mapssome spanning two full pagesall printed on glossy paper and packed with statistics about countries and regions around the world I must have been about seven years old at the time With my first memory tied to travel and this atlas sparking my imagination, my destiny as a traveler was sealedThis book is a collection of all the funny events that happened to me while traveling around the world I never planned for any of them to happenthey just happenedNote about the cover The photo is an underwater shot of the actual sea lion from the first story