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The Clock and the Compass : Raw, Funny, and Sometimes Uncomfortable Tales from a Life Lived on the Edge

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Overview

What if you could hear the truth-the real, unfiltered, laugh-out-loud and occasionally gut-punching truth-from a guy who ditched the grind, chased chaos, and actually lived to tell about it?

Meet Pete No R: retired firefighter, ex-paramedic, full-time traveler, dive instructor, boat captain, and reformed people-pleaser with a passport full of stamps and a mind full of stories. The Clock and the Compass isn't your average travel memoir. It's a brutally honest, darkly funny, and sometimes uncomfortably real look at what happens when you stop chasing the American Dream-and start chasing something else entirely.

From getting a full-body shave in a cat-lady's kitchen, to almost shitting himself in mid-air thanks to 90s diet science, to walking the chaotic streets of Bangkok with a drink in one hand and a moral contradiction in the other-this book is part travelogue, part therapy session, part "what-the-hell-am-I-doing-with-my-life?" manifesto.

But beneath the laughs, there's clarity:

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Details

  • ISBN-13: 9798287085377
  • ISBN-10: 9798287085377
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publish Date: July 2025
  • Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.47 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.54 pounds
  • Page Count: 206

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