Like a Leaf on a River

By Jim Hendrickson

In the opening chapter of this book you’ll discover the reasons of my lifelong passion for wanderlust-the love of traveling the world, especially on a shoestring budget.
For the next three chapters you’ll accompany me vicariously on a three-month hitchhike from near Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Seattle, Washington, down the West Coast of the United States, east to Tucson, Arizona and from there to the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. From there we’ll hitchhike back to Wisconsin along Mexico’s Gulf Coast and northward through Texas and Oklahoma.
In the remaining seventeen chapters we’ll travel 30,000 miles around the world through Europe, India, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, the Cook Islands, and the Marquesas Islands on a four-month trip filled with many adventures and misadventures.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jim Hendrickson
• Release date: Feb 21, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301414468

Jim Hendrickson

Jim Hendrickson is a retired Professor of foreign languages. He speaks English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese as well as smatterings of many other languages. Jim has published more than 60 foreign language textbooks as well as articles on psycholinguistics.He has taught at all educational levels: elementary school, high school, adult education, community college, college, and university. He has taught in California, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Massachusetts, Kentucky, and Washington. He worked as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University, a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in Bolivia and Chile, and a Language Consultant for the United States Peace Corps in Belize.Jim has traveled in over 150 countries and looks forward to visiting others in the near future.