Passport to Life
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If you use the human body analogy for Guatemala City the taxi driver was taking me the arsehole route into town. Beyond midnight we veered through spooky, unlit, desolate, and for the most part, boarded up buildings in abandoned streets. Then I spotted signs of life. On most corners there were, in ones and twos, what seemed ghostly ladies of the night until one of them glared straight into our passing cab displaying a grotesquely made up face showing that they weren´t ladies at all. "Transvestites" pointed out the driver proudly as if they were an object of civic pride. This was a scary, seedy, twilight world I would have preferred not to have witnessed at the dead of night within twenty minutes of arriving in reputedly one of the most dangerous cities in the world.
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When I split with my wife ten years ago, my antidote for the resulting feeling of loss and the negative emotions that a marriage breakup engenders was to be dramatically life altering. At the age of fifty-five I planned to teach English in Asia and South America. However, the road from plan to realization was littered with mental and physical obstacles, some of which almost proved fatal. Somehow surving these setbacks, I completed my quest by backpacking through Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, South America, Central America, and Burma. This is a tale about my physical, emotional, and psychological journey.
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I am sixty-four working in a pastoral role with a cluster of inner-city schools in Cardiff, South Wales (UK). When I split with my wife ten years ago, my antidote for the resulting feeling of loss and the negative emotions that a marriage breakup engenders was to be dramatically life altering. I planned to teach English in Vietnam and Ecuador. However, the road from plan to realization was littered with obstacles, some of which almost proved fatal. Eventually cured, I completed my recovery by backpacking through Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, South America, Central America, and Burma. This a tale about my physical, emotional, and psychological journey.