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IN THE LONG RUN - A Hopeful World Odyssey
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Highlights:

The story has some of the romance, adventure, violence, comedy, beauty and enlightenment you might imagine:

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Join MELAWEND and me as we embark on a timeless journey of inward and outward discovery...

 

 

Tom and Melawend
with Amer Abu Khamis and camel Hassan at the Pyramids

 

 

  • surviving crashes, injuries and bacillary dysentery;
  • feeling the terror in Paris during "the September Bombings";
  • shaking hands with Pope John Paul at the Vatican;
  • resolving confrontations with Arabs along the Nile;
  • learning from romantic interludes and troubles in the Sinai;
  • being kissed by a lion in Kenya;
  • being taken downtown by the secret police in Nairobi;
  • surviving a blistering but fascinating passage through India;
  • while dysenteric in Nepal, coming to grips with my own life;
  • discovering a treasure in the South China Sea;
  • overcoming the Wizard of Oz syndrome in the corporate worlds of Tokyo;
  • exploring island life while marooned for four months in Hawaii; and
  • relishing the home run across the living breadth of America….

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