If there's even a bit of the adventurer in you, you'll love Bill Birnbaum's stories of adventure, misadventure, and lessons learned along the way. You will laugh when you learn that, as a teenager, he experimented with home-made rockets and bombs-and did just a little bit of damage. Hold your breath while you read Bill's stories about picking up hitchhikers, only a few of whom were seriously dangerous. You'll gasp while reading of the plane's single engine quitting at 2,500 feet (Yep, Bill survived) and thrill to Bill's adventure travel by four-wheel-drive automobile in Mexico's Baja California Peninsula before the road was paved. You'll either admire him or think he's nuts when you learn that, at age sixty-four he and his wife sold their home, moved to the Peruvian Andes, and there created their own volunteer opportunity. If you love adventure and lessons learned from adventure, this is the book for you.