Travel Seekness, Lisa Jackson
Travel Seekness, Lisa Jackson
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Travel Seekness
In Search of Places to Be, People to See... and Strange Stuff to Eat

Author: Lisa Jackson, Graham Williams

Narrator: Lisa Jackson, Graham Williams

Unabridged: 6 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/19/2021


Synopsis

Would you risk deportation by illegally teaching English (with a fake American accent) just so you could scrape together the money to travel? And would you even want to roam the world for eight months on a budget so minuscule that you were forced to use paperbacks as loo roll and boil your own drinking water?Lisa and her husband Graham did both. Their hilarious trip saw them buying snacks from ‘voodoo vendors’ in Taiwan, almost drowning off a Philippine beach, stumbling across ‘death porn’ in Thailand and meeting The Bogeyman in a Pushkar restaurant.While abroad they contracted a serious case of travel seekness – an irresistible urge to go in search of places to be, people to see and strange stuff to eat – which compelled them to do World Heritage Shites in Egypt, evade Guinness-swigging swingers in a Dublin pub and fly to Cuba with a suspected terrorist.Written in a chemo ward following a devastating cancer diagnosis, and completed during the CV-19 lockdown, Travel Seekness is both a hair-raising litany of messes, misadventures and misfortunes and a poignant story capturing Lisa and Graham’s love for travel and, ultimately, each other.If you enjoy the witty, observational humour of David Sedaris and Bill Bryson, you’ll love this unforgettable book by Graham Williams and Lisa Jackson, the best-selling author of Running Made Easy and the award-winning Your Pace or Mine?Travel Seekness offers all the fun of travelling abroad – with none of the bed bugs!

About Lisa Jackson

Born in Oregon in 1952, American author, Lisa Jackson, began her career in 1983 with her book, The Twist of Fate, and is still presently writing. She is a number one author on The New York Times bestselling list, writing more than 85 published novels. (She also uses the pseudonym of Susan Lynn Crose.)

As with many authors, Lisa began writing when she was a struggling mother, out of necessity to put food on the table. At that time, she probably did not realize that she would end up with a writing career putting her neck deep in romantic, murder mysteries. Lisa is best known for taking her readers to "the edge of sanity...... and back". Dangerous secrets, deadly passions, lies, clues, personal relationships.......all intertwined to create the terror and madness that can exist in the world.

Lisa is now a typical spoiling grandmother who loves her grandchildren and her little pug dog named Jackie-O-No. She loves old rock and roll, pop, and new country music. She leads a pretty quiet, fulfilling life in her native state of Oregon.......time with family, walks with her sister (also an author), coffee, crossword puzzles and great TV.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Belinda on May 02, 2021

Brilliant read, highly recommended! Looking forward to the next read from these two talented authors.......more

Goodreads review by Lynn on December 04, 2020

I read and loved Lisa and Graham’s first book and this follow up did not disappoint. So many disasters and near death incidents happening to one lovely couple - they really should not be let out on their own! Enjoyed all their tales and having visited some of the same places, admittedly staying in r......more

Goodreads review by Lene on December 03, 2020

Strap in and enjoy the ride with Lisa and Graham. What a fabulous book and sequel to Travel Seekness, a complete page turner. Full of hair raising and heart stopping moments with adventures that keeps your attention till the last word. How about coming face to face with ready to eat grey pickled pigs......more

Goodreads review by Hilary on December 21, 2020

As a homing-pigeon kinda gal, the vicarious thrills delivered by 'Travel Agents' have rocketed enough adrenalin around my veins to see me through 2021. Boy, they weren’t kidding with their jacket coverline: “More scrapes, japes and narrow escapes”. From being tailed and interrogated in Iran, to bein......more

Goodreads review by Paula on April 21, 2021

This is the first book that I have read by Lisa and Graham and Wow! What a whirlwind of adventures in a book that is hard to put down once you have started reading, didn't disappoint. Utterly gripped in their exploits as they travel the world to some of the world’s most beautiful to some of the worl......more