“Go Dat Way and Go Dere”
Around the World in Fifty Years
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A must-do in Ireland is to kiss the Blarney Stone. There's this old castle where you walk up a few flights of steps in a circular staircase. At the top, there's a small wall, then nothing else for about five stories down. But what a lovely view of the countryside. So, in order to kiss the stone, you must lie on your back, bend over using about three-quarters of your body, and kiss this think that is part of the retaining wall, on the bottom. All the time, you're thinking that this stone has been kissed by millions and millions of people, with all manner of germs. And to make it even more difficult, you're upside down. Of course, since the pandemic started, I don't think many people have been kissing it lately. A lot of people aren't kissing anything, or anyone, these COVID-19 days.
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One would never think that someone in a war zone would be bitten by the travel bug, but that’s exactly what happened to Gary Loupassakis’s father while serving his country overseas during the Second World War. When he returned home, he began taking his family on vacations along the East Coast, and eventually throughout the entire country and the Caribbean. Unwittingly, he passed on the travel bug to his son, Gary. In a travel memoir that includes vivid photographs, Gary shares entertaining stories and images from his life, beginning with his childhood, and then as he worked as a travel agent and toured the world from 1959 until 2021, visiting sixty-five countries on six continents—and still counting. While detailing his adventures, Gary offers fascinating insight gathered through five decades about the cultures, traditions, and tourist attractions of other countries that include Egypt, Israel, Australia and New Zealand, Switzerland, South Africa, Greece, and many more. “Go Dat Way and Go Dere” is a travel memoir that details the many journeys of a seasoned American travel agent as he embarked on a fifty-year tour of the world.
About the Author
Gary Loupassakis grew up in a small town in central New Jersey, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in history from Kean University. A travel agent since 1967, he has extensively traveled the world for the past fifty years. “Go Dat Way and Go Dere” is his first book.