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Vacation Boy: Does This Count as a Career? is about taking life by the horns and riding that unpredictable bronco around the world, leaving no regrets on the table, even if the ride results in a few bruises along the way. The non-fiction memoir leads the reader into the travels and winding “career path” of the sometimes hapless, often joyful and always evolving Vacation Boy. It is less a compilation of travel stories than the sum of the parts of a life lived differently. Whether battling a cantankerous bike
The author hopes that readers, inspired by these tales, will be encouraged to take bigger leaps of faith in their own lives, just to see what happens.
Jon’s Vacation Boy approach to life germinated in South Carolina, where he was always curious about what lay beyond the horizon. He has degrees in International Relations and East Asian Languages & Cultures from the University of Southern California and completed an International MBA at the University of South Carolina with a Chinese specialization. He speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish and “Southern,” plus he can do a horrible Aussie accent.