Loves Kerbsides and Goodbyes: A Backpacker's Road

Encompassing nearly a decade-and-a-half on the road is Loves Kerbsides and Goodbyes. It captures the loose nature characters emotions of global backpacking today. Kerbsides are backpackers theatres to meet re-connect share their lives fall in love say goodbye. They are their platforms to perform - strumming outside China tea houses to crowds venerating them like rock stars gathering an international troubadour on Kuala Lumpur sidewalks to busk for drinks or outside a 7-11 on that ultimate backpacker kerbside Kaoh San Road Bangkok. Kerbsides are where backpackers manifest uncomplicated love - treating every day as a minute and a lifetime. It may be a farewell but its no big thing.Theres no lost luggage cancellations reservation errors bad wine or slighted courtesies - just toting backpack camera and guitar. Busking at borders. Freezing in Mongolia. Shivering in Siberia. Frying in Pakistan. Hitching the Sichuan Highway. Navigating the Rio Napa. Share the heat cold stress discomfort discovery pain danger and elation of life on the road. Theres Indian Chinese and Thai police interrogations. Theres drugs exploitation and backpacking hedonism. There are frustrations elations tensions and wonderment on long arduous overland journeys. Theres the adrenalin of high mountain voids the despair of money scammed in Bolivias backblocks the satisfaction of saving a Swiss life in death-dealing subcontinent heat. Theres broken bones muggings and robbery because longterm backpacking is challenging and dangerous.Loves Kerbsides and Goodbyes traces the loose weaving international travels of a group of backpackers who meet and re-connect as they cross borders share other cultures and experience countless incidents from tender to humorous to dangerous to perilous. There are no prescriptive dos and donts or best destination lists - simply the excitement wonder dangers and freedoms of backpacking today.