Smiling Kodiak Circles the Globe

By Drew Grant

Smiling Kodiak Circles the Globe brings you along on his most recent dash around the planet –kicking and screaming, laughing and crying. He attacks sixteen cities – Shanghai, Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Amboise, Blois, Paris, New York, Montreal, Kingston (Ontario), Toronto, Boston, Bar Harbor (Maine), Raleigh, Vancouver, before getting a wisp of Los Angeles and retreating back home to Melbourne. None of them will ever be the same — and neither will you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jan 22, 2015
• ISBN: 9781942498025

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Drew Grant

Smiling Kodiak

Circles the Globe

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Table of Contents

Preface

The Itinerary

1 Here we go again…

2 What, me manic?

3 Renewed Focus in Helsinki

4 Another Stockholm Syndrome

5 Living to Visit

6 Training Snags and Tumbling through the Loir

7 Beyond a Château of a Doubt

8 Paris when it Sizzles

9 Hello Pork Pie Hat

10 Passport to the Outer Limits

11 Boston Baggage

12 Ya cahn’t get thay-ya from hee-ya…

13 Fool me twice…

14 Land of the Living

15 At Long Last in Los Angeles and Lost at Home

Preface

These travel blogs were written during a six-week trip around the world in 2013. They are largely unedited, provided as they were first posted on social media. They are not intended to be a guide to the places visited, although there are some good tips. They are intended to be one man’s view of a certain time and place, and, I hope, an entertaining read.

The Itinerary