Where's Paulo: Hiking Biking Running Abroad

Cut adrift by the sudden and unexpected breakup of his 17-year marriage in 2006, British-born chemist Paul Rowbottom took up employment at Pfizer’s New York City headquarters. Nine years later, when the company offered him a generous severance package, he took the money and ran. Literally! Paul has spent the last two years traveling extensively throughout the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia and the North Pacific Ocean —a wanderlust interrupted only by brief stays with his sons, Luke and Alex, in the U.K., and in his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. “I realized losing my job was an unexpected opportunity to travel the world and share my experiences with others by writing about them." Whenever possible, Paul combines his love of travel with his passion for keeping super fit. His sightseeing trips usually involve biking, hiking and skiing up and down mountains or through rough terrain, running marathons with his Road Runners Club and Race2Adventure buddies, climbing cave walls, scaling the steep steps of ancient Aztec ruins — physically-challenging activities that invariably end with collegial gatherings and plenty of cold beer. This book, Paul’s first, is adapted from his blog, www.wherespaulo.com