David Jedeikin's Documents

  • 5 p.

    Flashpacking 101: Backpacking With Frills

    All about flashpacking -- a new trend in travel combining backpacking with budget comfort

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  • 7 p.

    The Wandies: An utterly idiosyncratic list of best & worst sights, sleeps, and (of course) eats around the world

    A list of picks and pans by the author of tell-all travel memoir Wander the Rainbow, which chronicles his 7 month, 29 country, 6 continent trek around planet earth in the face of some rather unique life circumstances

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  • 7 p.

    Wander the Rainbow: Origins

    Chapter One of Wander the Rainbow, my memoir of a unique seven-month round-the-world trip and the circumstances leading up to it.

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  • 314 p.

    Wander the Rainbow

    When David Jedeikin's partner of three years becomes critically ill, the only way to save him is to volunteer as his living liver donor. But this ultimate act of sharing doesn't rescue their relationship, which ends soon after with the couple on opposite coasts. Struggling to find perspective on these events, Jedeikin decides on a radical switch: he leaves everything behind -- work, family, friends, even the beginnings of a new relationship -- to embark on a seven-month trip around the world. What unfolds is a dazzling array of experiences across six continents. Traveling as a flashpacker -- backpacking with creature comforts -- Jedeikin blends visits to gay nightspots with straight-edge sightseeing; unearths family roots in Latvia, China, Italy, Israel, and South Africa; learns the legacy of the Jews of Prague and Rome; and finds romance with a sex club bartender in Berlin, a Brazilian in Tokyo, and an exchange student in Beijing. From Viennese party hostels to Parisian models to hallucinogens in Cambodia, Wander the Rainbow is the true story of a career professional who trades convention for a one-of-a-kind walkabout around Planet Earth.

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