Road to Elsewhere, Excerpt #6: The Longest Walk of My Life

Mitigating factor: I was in Paris, France, after all.

On Fridays I run excerpts from The Road to Elsewhere, my coming-of-age-travel-memoir-with-funny-drawings. (You can find the first entry here.) It tells the story of my road through Paris, London, and Zagreb, in search of the ultimate destination: a life worth living.

I WAS LADEN WITH LUGGAGE, but without much baggage, when I avoided the most justifiable …