Pass the Butterworms by Tim Cahill was a book that was recommended to me from a friend who actually left the company that I was working with, and it's a great book I think to think about adventure traveling.
It's essentially a collection of short stories that - of various locations that Tim went - for example, to Mongolia, to the Amazon, to - and South America specifically, and as well as parts of Asia. Really a whole series of different environments that he was in, describing the things that he would eat, the people that he would meet, the differences that he would notice in cultures, and discover more about himself and where he came from by looking at others. That was, I thought, was pretty fascinating.
I think the favorite story I had was with his rides with Mongolian horsemen, and so the reason why I thought this was my favorite story was that it kind of almost reminded me of Genghis Kahn and kind of imagining doing something like that in the 20th century. I love to travel; traveling is a lot of fun. My travels were so much more fun when I was doing something different rather than going on a tour, and so this really reinforces that, where there really is no tour, there's no set agenda, there's no really set anything.
I would recommend this book to anybody who's interested about doing something off the beaten path. I would give this book a four-star rating, four stars out of five. This book was a very good book; it tended - there's no structure to the book, so if you're looking for a book that has a definite conclusion or a definite end, this is not the book for you.
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