Wherever I Choose: An Unauthorized Autobiography

Synopsis

You'll Meet The Energetic Showman Who Pursued Challenges And Packed Enough Living-and Fun-into His Eighty-plus Years To Merit A Memoir Twice The Size Of This One. This Is The Small-town Iowa Boy Who Grew Up To Visit Sixty-six Countries On All Seven Continents, Who's Been At Ten Olympic Games, Leading Tours To Some, Writing About Others, And Who, When He Retired, Figured Out A Way He And His Wife, Carol, Could Cruise The World, For Free. This Is The Man Who, As A College Sophomore, Bet A Friend $10 He Could Hitchhike From Iowa City To South Carolina Over The Weekend And Be Back In Time For Class On Monday. He Succeeded, Of Course, Collecting The Bet And A Ton Of News Coverage Along The Way.ecker Has Those Clippings, And Thousands More, Chronicling His Adventures. He Has The Twenty-one Books He's Written, The Interviews And Anthems He's Taped, The Slides And Pictures He's Taken. And, Of Course, The Note A Train Conductor Wrote For Him In 1954 Directing Him To Another Train. Humor, Love, And Good Jokes Fill This Joyful Book But Cannot Disguise A Life Well And Fully Lived. It Holds A Takeaway For All Of Us: Grab Life And Wring Every Bit Of Laughter And Fun Out Of It That You Can, All While Working Hard And Following That Long Brown Path Wherever You Choose.