Escape Clauses: Getting Away With a Travel Writing Life

When people ask Bob Payne how to get started at travel writing, he often tells them that running away from home at fifteen and hitchhiking alone around America is what worked for him. In his 142-country memoir, Escape Clauses: Getting Away With a Travel Writing Life, Payne chronicles how he parlays that first solo adventure into decades of world travel by seeking out strangers in far places and making their stories a part of his own.