Alice appeared on a quiet Sunday evening to drop off a video that a customer had returned by mistake to the video store she worked at. I was still living at home, working part-time at a local video store - covetously saving for the trip. It was the first time ever I was getting on a plane, heading to the other side of the world - and in less than three weeks before I departed I met a girl. But I guess the mystical forces don’t care whether you know them by name or not. I hadn’t heard of the Leaving Phenomenon when I left my hometown in 1998 to go backpack around Europe. When he’s not seeking out an untold story, he’s heading towards an unknown destination over the horizon – enjoying being lost in the spaces between places.Ĭhapter 4: Los Amigos Theatre of TransformationĬhapter 11: Finding Ferris in Gotham CityĬhapter 17: Searching For the Rabbit in the Moon David continues to live a life on the open road, gathering material for a third travel book while working on two books of fiction. David has since completed his eagerly awaited second travel memoir in which he’s continually discovering new places and cultures, and meeting new and fascinating people. With fortitude and passion, David’s innumerable budget backpacking odysseys across six continents produced its own inevitability in 2011 with the release of his first book, Loves, Kerbsides and Goodbyes. The more places David visited, the more eager he grew for longer adventures and more remote destinations – trekking through the Andes, the Alps, the Himalayas and the Amazon traversing the Mosquito Coast, the Trans-Siberian, the Silk Road and edges of Mesopotamia sailing on Egyptian feluccas and Panamanian catamarans crossing glaciers in Pakistan and deserts in Africa visiting ancient archaeological sites around the world including Ciudad Perdida and El Mirador, surviving South East Asia hedonism, highway bandits and police corruption hitchhiking across Mongolia, Tibet and Tajikistan and road tripping around North America.Īlong the way David came to realise that journeying across vast continents via river, road, trails, rail and sea is not that different from overlanding it through life. But a European gap year in 1998 hooked David on backpacking, and independent travel soon turned into a Beat Zen way of life. Originally from Perth on the remote west coast of Australia, David’s enchantment with movement was sown at an early age. Title: Beat Zen and the Art of Dave / David McNamara.Īs an author, artist, pilgrim and wayfarer, David McNamara has been spinning tales of adventure and yarns of fiction for more than 15 years. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The Australian Copyright Act 1968 (the Act) allows a maximum of one chapter or 10 per cent of the book, whichever is the greater, to be photocopied by any educational institution for its educational purposes provided that the educational institute (or body that administers it) has given a remuneration notice to Copyright Agency Ltd (CAL) under the Act.
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