The First Chapter of My Memoir—Not That Anyone Asked: A Travel Memoir about Sex, Love, Drugs, and Finding Purpose

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Note #1: Not That Anyone Asked opens with The Preamble in Three Parts: The Dedication, How to Approach This Book, and This Book's Hope. All three are short mood-setting sections to lay the foundation before I launch into the body of the memoir, which you’ll find the start of below…

Note #2: The memoir itself includes a photo section at each of the four continent breaks. I decided to add some new photos here that aren’t in the book, just to spice things up a bit.

Note #3: November 4th is my birthday, so consider grabbing a copy, writing a review, or telling a friend about the book as your gift to this almost 41-year old. I would very much appreciate it.

I’m proud to say I designed this myself.

Continent 1: South America

Chapter 1: Wisconsin & Aruba

Grad School was finishing and I started telling people I was leaving. My placement at the neighborhood center through school was wrapping up, the lease on my house had a few months left, and I didn’t have a girlfriend, dog, or…