Don’t Go There!: From Chernobyl to North Korea—One Man’s Quest to Lose Himself and Find Everyone Else in the World’s Strangest Places

by Adam Fletcher

Families are like icebergs: there’s always way more going on under the surface.

Travel is wonderful. A near-perfect state of surprise, wonder, and excitement. A chance to challenge your assumptions, defeat your prejudices, and write a new story for yourself. As

a traveller. An exile. An adventurer. An explorer. As someone with great stories of struggle, survival, curiosity, courage, and reinvention. But the pursuit of those narratives can be harmful, too.

Travelling’s great and I’ll always want to see as much of this odd global Human Experiment as I can. But I realise now that those stories I’ve been chasing, in all the places that weren’t here, well, there are also great ones right here, too. I’ve also realised that it’s good to make sacrifices for the things that are important to you.”