Episodes from a 20 Year Vacation

Why squander your life away in your own hometown when you can do it in London Paris and Rome?Eight months after landing what many had considered to be a plum job with the Federal government Fred Z. suddenly realizes that his safe and secure position is rapidly luring him towards an insufficient destiny. Abandoning his home and native land Fred heads for Europe only to be faced with the even greater challenges of a new language new culture and a new life. After six months spent exploring the continent and a year-long respite in Cornwall he returns to Germany and is immediately thrust into an array of lurid sublime and downright ridiculous situations in the on-going struggle to establish himself as a freelance cameraman. Plagued by uncertainty whether hes made the right decision its through a chance meeting with a fellow North American that the doors to real opportunity fling wide open. From that point on whether its dog sledding in the Yukon getting mugged in Naples removing land mines in Cambodia tracking Dracula in Romania interviewing Hitlers telephone operator in Berlin chasing cheetahs in Vienna flying in a Black Hawk over Bosnia or replacing a cancerous esophagus in Hamburg to name just a few all play a part in providing for eclectic glimpses of just how the world works laying the groundwork for what would become a twenty year vacation.