It's a love story.

I am a photographer, graphic designer and videographer that became seriously disillusioned with my future and my career back In 2004.

 

I struggled through an increasingly stressful lifestyle of working most of my waking hours and then drinking to tolerate those long hours. I was becoming a depressed drunk prick spiralling downward into oblivion. Then one day a brutal work situation brought me to tears and smacked some sense into my fuzzy head forcing me to make a life-changing decision. After quitting my life, selling everything I owned and buying a big black backpack, I set off around the world with a camera, a thick notepad, a new positive attitude and absolutely no plans for my future. 

 

The ohronniewhereartthou? book is a year of stories about freedom, danger, drugs, prostitution, death threats, friends, beer, frogs, sharks, jumping from planes, extortion, Sweet Sandra, dirty laundry, scams, bribes, shitting in the woods, ... it’s a love story!

 

The stories come from a website that I had created for my family to know my whereabouts during the year. ohronniewhereartthou.com grew into a travel site that had thousands of followers enjoying the mindless drivel that I added every few days as I drank and fumbled my way through 24 countries and 85 cities. As a self-proclaimed inexperienced dumbass of travelling and of the world in general, I was just as surprised as anyone that I had survived a year alone without researching any of the destinations that I landed in. Without a cellphone and with only the odd internet cafe available, I was able to upload to the website letting my family, friends and followers know what latest bout of trouble I had gotten myself into.

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Ron Sumners