"e;I'll be unsure what my words will be until the breath reaches my lips, then, like everything else, they'll find their way through the world."e; Recently unemployed, newly single, and dreading the big 3-0 around the corner, Brian O'Dea sells all he can, packs up the rest in his parents' attic, then dives headfirst into the round-the-world journey he believes will be his once-in-a-lifetime, slightly premature midlife-crisis, finding-yourself, movie-perfect metamorphosis. What he doesn't realize, however, is that the changes he will undergo aren't the ones he'll be expecting, nor will they be the comfortable, easily-packaged kinds. Money, food, and a place to sleep won't always be a guarantee, life's truths will be found in hens-turned-roosters, and paradises will become hells. Vine to Vine: Twelve Tales of Wayward Travel is a collection of travel stories that prove that in travel, there is revelation, absurdity, adversity, love, and humanity.

"e;I'll be unsure what my words will be until the breath reaches my lips, then, like everything else, they'll find their way through the world."e; Recently unemployed, newly single, and dreading the big 3-0 around the corner, Brian O'Dea sells all he can, packs up the rest in his parents' attic, then dives headfirst into the round-the-world journey he believes will be his once-in-a-lifetime, slightly premature midlife-crisis, finding-yourself, movie-perfect metamorphosis. What he doesn't realize, however, is that the changes he will undergo aren't the ones he'll be expecting, nor will they be the comfortable, easily-packaged kinds. Money, food, and a place to sleep won't always be a guarantee, life's truths will be found in hens-turned-roosters, and paradises will become hells. Vine to Vine: Twelve Tales of Wayward Travel is a collection of travel stories that prove that in travel, there is revelation, absurdity, adversity, love, and humanity.