From Here To There by Jon Faine,Jack Faine

By Jon Faine,Jack Faine

An clever, funny go back and forth story that also is the tale of a young father-son dating from ABC neighborhood Radio's mythical broadcaster Jon Faine. 'Somehow, I confident myself it used to be a good suggestion. someway, I confident myself that it used to be do-able. Now I shake my head... We drove during the Gobi desolate tract in Mongolia in a storm from snow, shunned an Iranian sedan doing cartwheels at the highway close to tehran, wove round the seashores of the Caspian Sea and navigated the wilderness in turkmenistan. We realized to claim thanks in thirty languages and allotted fluffy koalas to traumatised babies in vague mountain wallet from Laos to Kurdistan. We kicked an Aussie ideas footy throughout borders and taught customs officials easy methods to do a drop-punt from timor Leste to Uzbekistan. We ate bark and ox blood and worms and pigs ears and eel and curries so sizzling we approximately fell off our chairs. We bribed police in 5 nations, neglected parking tickets in one other six and acquired misplaced pretty well in every single place. We squabbled over meals and farting, noisily snoring and sneezing. It used to be overall folly and it was once the easiest factor you could ever do. i might do it back and that i wouldn't suggest it to anyone.' In April 2008, Jon Faine and his son Jack closed their door on their Melbourne domestic and leaving jobs, stories, friends and family, took six months and went overland to London of their trusty 4-wheel-drive. this clever and humorous recount of the international locations they visited, humans they met and bother they acquired into, is additionally the tale of a smooth father-son relationship.

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