Publisher's Synopsis
What if you could hear the truth-the real, unfiltered, laugh-out-loud and occasionally gut-punching truth-from a guy who ditched the grind, chased chaos, and actually lived to tell about it?
Meet Pete No R: retired firefighter, ex-paramedic, full-time traveler, dive instructor, boat captain, and reformed people-pleaser with a passport full of stamps and a mind full of stories. The Clock and the Compass isn't your average travel memoir. It's a brutally honest, darkly funny, and sometimes uncomfortably real look at what happens when you stop chasing the American Dream-and start chasing something else entirely.
From getting a full-body shave in a cat-lady's kitchen, to almost shitting himself in mid-air thanks to 90s diet science, to walking the chaotic streets of Bangkok with a drink in one hand and a moral contradiction in the other-this book is part travelogue, part therapy session, part "what-the-hell-am-I-doing-with-my-life?" manifesto.
But beneath the laughs, there's clarity:
