On the last night of my book tour, I look for an interesting story and end up in a tricky situation

In the early 1960s there was no place to eat pizza in Toronto (as far as we knew). The closest was across the border, in the U.S.A., but that wasn't too far away for "Crash" Caplan, a youth known for wrecking cars in terrible accidents.

#2 Those Absent on the Great Hungarian Plain: Tarzan, Udo and the Russians by Jill Culiner

The Hungarian Count sells paintings in Toronto from the book Those Absent on the Great Hungarian Plain

The Book Tour, New York City, the Old Barrymore House, Romeo

People met while travelling by Greyhound bus across America on a book tour

Traveling through the USA by Greyhound, Strange characters,

Travelling up from Florida: the people met on buses; ecology: the Old South; dreamers.

The Book Tour Episode Nineteen: Traveller's Blues by Jill Culiner

I travel to Panama City Florida and meet the famous Jim Bikeman

Traveling by bus in the south: Mobile, Alabama to Florida

The beginning of my journey to find Velvel Zbarzher Available from Claret Press Paperback https://payhip.com/b/o7M23 Ebook https://payhip.com/b/HmK5C Or https://boook.link/A-Contrary-Journey-with-Velvel-Zbarzher-Bard

Velvel Zbarzher, rebel, songster, and glittering star of fusty inns, spent his life singing his Enlightenment poems to loyal audiences of poor workers and craftsmen in Austrian-Galicia, Romania, Vienna and Istanbul. His attacks condemning the religious stronghold resulted in banishment and itinerancy, but for Velvel and the other like the other reformers of his time, the compensations were great: heady stimulation, and an intellectual freedom prohibited in traditional life. Come travel back to the mid-1800s, discover the life, the villages, the odours, sounds and traditions. A Contrary Journey with Velvel Zbarzher, Bard by Jill Culiner Published by Claret Press

Strange characters on the bus, Oklahoma's unsavoury history, the KKK, the Sooners, a breakfast invitation

Looking for the Perfect Setting and the Perfect Place to Live

I travel to Nevada to find the ideal place to set a story. Instead, I find Las Vegas, nuclear testing grounds, and assorted rubbish.

The Romanian Fusgeyers were the Jews who walked out of their country. One hundred and thirty years later, I crossed Romania in their footsteps before continuing on along the former immigrant trail across Europe, then to the gold and silver mining towns of Canada.

A meeting with an ex thirty years later

The ups and downs of book talks

The greasy-haired man is on his way to meet his new love...a woman he has never seen...