Elliott Hester sold his car, abandoned his apartment, and took off alone on a trip around the world. Drifting to over fifty destinations, Elliott's tales range from the bizarre to the hilarious to the flat-out shocking. Travel with him as he chases off transvestites in the South Pacific, impersonates Samuel L. Jackson in the Czech Republic , and joins in the Finnish tradition of sprinting from a steamy sauna to plunging the frigid Baltic Sea-naked!

Only an around-the-world excursion could produce such outlandish, hair-raising, hysterical adventures and only Elliott Hester could so vibrantly write these fascinating insights about life-and people-on the road….

Besteslling author Elliott Hester is an award-winning travel writer and former Salon.com columnist. His syndicated travel column, “Continental Drifter,” appears in one hundred U.S. newspapers. Elliott owns no furniture and has no perma-nent address. He travels continually from one foreign destination to the next, writing his column and toting his worldly belongings in a rolling duffel bag.

Follow Elliott's journey at www.elliotthester.com .