Around My World

<p>In life we are occasionally faced with detours. Some of them are thrust upon us just when we think we have life all figured out. Sometimes however they are self-created. We choose to take them driven by some inner desire or passion. Author Jason Thiessen's extraordinary adventure was just such a detour-borne of the dreams of a young boy with only an atlas as his guide to an unseen world.</p> <p>Nearly thirty years after those dreams began they became a reality. Thiessen a man with a wife a career and a mortgage set out on a journey of discovery to find purpose and meaning while attempting to answer lifelong questions. His detour from an otherwise traditional life path took him to South America Africa the Middle East Europe India Southeast Asia and Australia ultimately traveling twice the distance of the circumference of the earth. Just as his adventure brought him from the heights of the Andes to the depths of the Dead Sea so too did Thiessen take an emotional journey from feelings of excitement fulfillment and joy to those of anger frustration and despair.</p> <p><i>Around My World: A Detour on Life's Journey</i> tells a story for anyone who is on their own journey to reconcile modern-day pressures and realities with the insights that world travel can bring to one's life.</p>