Adventure on a DARE
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I’m Chris’s wife (from your men’s group). Chris shared the manuscript of your upcoming book with me and I actually put another book aside to finish yours first! I enjoyed it so much that I plan to share it with my sister and a few other people. First, I want to tell you how well written it was. It was an easy read, which made it fun to follow your journey and exciting to imagine what might happen next. My second comment is that your descriptive style of writing made it possible for me to quickly create visual images in my mind of what you must have looked like out in the ocean – one man and his canoe, at times silly, in some other instances bordering on crazy, but always challenging the elements. I can’t wait to read about more of your exploits.
Christa
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About the Book
Adventure on a DARE is the first in a series of true-life accounts describing Fritz T. Sprandel’s journey into himself in which he discovers his capricious nature and raises questions about the nature of faith. During the course of his adventure, Fritz visits a variety of natural wonders, small towns, and fascinating people on a budget of ten cents and his own amazing resourcefulness. After overcoming the challenges of the wild, he finds himself in a foreign country, falsely charged with espionage. Then he faces, and incredibly survives relatively unscathed, a revolutionary tribunal trial in Castro’s Cuba.
The people he meets, the experiences he encounters, and the lessons he learns all become part of him. They form steps in his journey to meaning, although it’s a voyage that contains a deeper significance he doesn’t fully comprehend while he’s traveling.
Adventure on a DARE hearkens back to the travels of Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, and satiates our irresistible urge to fulfill our dreams of adventure. It explores the theme of personal freedom and challenges the promise of the American dream. There’s something for everyone in this story: a travelogue with interesting locations, colorful characters who lend drama, adventures in facing nature’s wrath alone, and the suspense of a Communist courtroom are all elements of the journey. Above all else, it is fun and engrossing—a worthwhile escape from everyday life.
About the Author
Fritz Sprandel was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania with his mother and two older brothers. Unfortunately, his family often didn’t realize his potential or affirm his value. Fritz’s brothers would bait him with dares that Fritz took them up on, which meant he was always in trouble. He was definitely the black sheep of the family. Besides thriving on dares, Fritz spent most of his working life as a sales coordinator with Keller Marine and RV Distributors in Port Trevorton, Pennsylvania. Now retired, Fritz fills his days writing about his many adventures, playing golf, studying the Bible, and driving part time for Beiber Limousine, a member of the Bieber Transportation Group of Kutztown, Pennsylvania “to pay for the golf.”