Trials & Tea Ceremonies

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A love story disguised as a travel memoir. Or perhaps the other way around.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>If you love books that transport you to another world </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Trials & Tea Ceremonies</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is your next obsession.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>What happens when 'normal' life feels... wrong? Staring down thirty-something complacency our relationship fraying under unspoken strains Cesca and I did the mad thing. We traded our corporate careers for two rucksacks and set off for a year across twelve countries to find the answer to the question that wouldn't go away: Is this it?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>But this wasn't a postcard holiday. From the neon chaos of Tokyo to the silence of the Himalayas we were testing not just the world but us. The real thread was our marriage laid raw on the road and healing in unexpected ways-from tense silences in third-class trains to quietly holding hands under the Bodhi Tree.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A profound and unflinchingly funny memoir about leaving everything behind... only to find that what truly matters was sitting right next to you all along.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Two backpacks. Twelve countries. One wild true story.</span></p>