Get ready to laugh, shake your head in disbelief, and be inspired to travel (or not) as you read The Tortured Traveller: How I Survived the Worst... Vacation... Ever.
When Sheldon Herman's house needs renovation, he decides the place to be is as far away as possible. On a bit of a whim, he gets his travel agent to book him a tour to a destination that wasn't exactly on his world travel bucket list. He soon finds himself in Cape Town, South Africa, about to embark on an adventure that will turn out to be unforgettable for all the wrong reasons.
Over sixty days and with his two trusty, bright orange suitcases—dubbed Pylon One and Pylon Two—Sheldon explores the highlights of Southern Africa from Cape Town to Nairobi, Kenya by way of Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Rwanda.
But instead of the luxury accommodation he was promised, he becomes intimately acquainted with Ursula, an ugly tent he has to set up himself over and over again. And what he thought was going to be a tour bus with comfortable, reclining seats and power outlets turns out to be prone to leaking when it rains... which is often.
The Tortured Traveller: How I Survived the Worst... Vacation... Ever is the hilarious account of a woefully unprepared tourist trying to come to terms with everything, from the beauty and cruelty of Botswana wildlife to the creature comforts of a hotel in Zanzibar, where he experiences the kind of bizarre massage you won't usually read about in East Africa travel books.In between, there's a bit of romance, a tragedy, and lots of action.
If you like In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson, or We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay by Gary Janetti, you'll love this book.
Don't miss out on this laugh-out-loud South Africa travel memoir about the worst vacation ever.