"When you travel, things go wrong." That might not sound like uplifting advice, but in this hilarious collection of stories about mishaps in faraway places, award winning humorist Dave Fox proves otherwise. At age eight, Dave moves to England and nearly starts a riot in Northern Africa. As a nerdy teenager, he smuggles illegal radio equipment into Finland on his way to spending a year in Norway. In his college days, he discovers it is not wise to seek inner peace inside an Icelandic volcano, and he thwarts the Italian Mafia, only to find himself surrounded by machine gun-toting cops in Greece. A few years later, he does something exceptionally reckless. He becomes a professional tour guide. Whether he's chasing down runaway sheep in Ireland, munching antibiotics in Turkey, interviewing drunken nomads above the Arctic Circle, or helping diffuse knife fights in the Vatican, Dave travels knowing that when things go wrong, they might not seem funny at the time, but the resulting stories are worth the chaos. Getting Lost: Mishaps of an Accidental Nomad spans 30 years of adventures and misadventures overseas, from Dave's year as a British school boy, to his teenage days as a foreign exchange student, to so-called "adult life" as a professional traveler. He weaves together tales both poignant and funny in this comical memoir of a travel-obsessed geek. "Dave Fox's writing is hilarious.... It's rare to find a person who has such unique stories to tell and can write about them to boot." - Tim Bete, Director of the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop
Dave Fox is an award-winning travel and humor writer. He has lived in Norway, England, and Turkey, and visited nearly 50 countries on five continents. In July, 2011, he will move to Singapore.
"I'm fascinated with the psychology of travel," Dave says, "...with how we view ourselves when we're in a foreign place."
In 2004, Dave won the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Book Proposal Contest sponsored by the University of Dayton, Ohio. His resulting collection of travel humor essays, "Getting Lost: Mishaps of an Accidental Nomad," was originally published in 2006 by AuthorHouse Books. A second, re-edited and improved edition was published in 2008 by Inkwater Press, along with Dave's second book, "Globejotting: How to Write Extraordinary Travel Journals (and still have time to enjoy your trip!)"
Following on the success of "Globejotting," Dave recently launched a new tour company, Globejotter Tours, which offers travel journaling and creative writing classes on tours in foreign countries. Dave accompanies every group, teaching participants how to write travel tales along the way. The company's first tour was a writing safari in Botswana in January, 2010. The next scheduled trip will visit southern Vietnam in October, 2010. Information is available at GlobejotterTours.com.
Dave is also a veteran Scandinavian tour guide for European travel expert Rick Steves. When he's home in Seattle, he also works for Bill Speidel's Underground Tour
A former news anchor for Wisconsin Public Radio, Dave has contributed to books by Rick Steves and Lonely Planet. His work has also appeared in travel magazines such as Transitions Abroad, Trips, Big World, and Silver Kris (Singapore Airlines' in-flight magazine), and in newspapers including the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Portland Oregonian, Dallas Morning News, and Wisconsin State Journal. He has appeared on the History Channel travel program, Weird U.S., as an authority on Scandinavian-American culture, and has been an opening speaker for Princess Märtha Louise of Norway.
Dave's travel journaling classes have been recommended in the Wall Street Journal. He is available to teach classes in travel journaling, humor writing, and a variety of other topics, and to deliver humorous keynotes that are both laughter-inducing and inspiring.
You can reach Dave via his websites: traveljournaling.com and davethefox.com. For information on his journaling and travel tale writing tours, please visit www.GlobejotterTours.com.
