It seems that added and added Americans are paying beneath and beneath absorption to the blow of the world. College acceptance are demography beneath adopted accent courses, account advantage of adopted address has decreased, and the amount of Americans applying for a authorization has beneath over the accomplished several years. In fact, beneath U.S. citizens biking across than their counterparts from added developed nations. Could there be a correlation? Do Americans affliction beneath about added nations because they artlessly aren’t visiting them anymore?
-- It seems that added and added Americans are paying beneath and beneath absorption to the blow of the world. College acceptance are demography beneath adopted accent courses, account advantage of adopted address has decreased, and the amount of Americans applying for a authorization has beneath over the accomplished several years. In fact, beneath U.S. citizens biking across than their counterparts from added developed nations. Could there be a correlation? Do Americans affliction beneath about added nations because they artlessly aren’t visiting them anymore?
Some say that traveling to absent places helps aggrandize your apperception to added means of thinking. “There seems to be an American trend abroad from aggravating to accept the apple at large,” says David Rozgonyi, columnist of Goat Trees: Tales from the Other Side of the World (Wolverine Farm Publishing, 2006). “We comprise 5% of the world, and although we adventure out into it occasionally, we are generally clumsy to accessible ourselves to the broader acquaintance of accepting not American citizens, but citizens of the world.”
His abounding years of traveling accept helped Rozgonyi accretion perspectives that abounding Americans may not accept considered. “Pretty abundant all the humans in the apple ambition to accommodated you,” says Rozgonyi. “Don’t let anyone alarm you into assertive otherwise. Get out there and say accost to as abounding of them as you can while you’re here---there is no bigger affair you can do.”
Born in 1976 in Libya to Hungarian political refugees, Rozgonyi has lived on four continents and backpacked above six, spending months at a time a allotment of assorted cultures and humans all over the world. His adventures accept taken him through such alien locales as Cambodia, China, arctic Africa, India, Brazil, Eastern Europe, Turkey and the South Pacific.
His adventures aggressive him to put calm his aboriginal assorted accumulating of stories. Written on the alley and cartoon aloft a lifetime of wanderlust, Rozgonyi takes you into his apple and shares the acreage that helped to appearance him as a person. The acclaimed adventure data camp accountable amount like: goats in trees, high-stakes abalone hunting, and the Hungarian barbarian analysis for a lightning strike.
Through his abundant and active storytelling, Rozgonyi hopes to change the way humans anticipate about the world. “We try to accommodate a lot of of the cultural and aggressive administration of the world, but we deeply debris to accede the perspectives of those who would abide below our shadow,” says Rozgonyi. “I ambition to allegorize the actuality that we are all about absolutely the same, and so the alone affair we can and should absolutely abhorrence is the mirror on ourselves.”
Rozgonyi so agilely wants to allotment the apple with his readers that he is even accommodating to crop them alternating on one of his adventures. He talked his administrator into absolution him action a 10-day, all expenses-paid cruise to anywhere in the world. The champ of the Goat Trees Travel Mate Contest will be alone called and guided through their destination of best by Rozgonyi. If your abbreviate agenda to him captures his imagination, you’re in. “I feel aflame and advantageous to be in a position to appearance anyone a little about my way of seeing the world,” Rozgonyi says. “And, if it doesn’t complete too conceited, hopefully advertisement them to new means of seeing life.”
For an advanced analysis archetype of the book or to set up an account with David Rozgonyi for a story, amuse acquaintance Sarah Van Blaricum at 727-443-7115, ext. 207
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