A grump in paradise learns that anyplace it's legal to carry a machete is comedy waiting to happen.

Description

From Nevis to Havana, Antigua to Grenada, and everywhere in between, be the gecko on the wall in Gary Buslik's strange and hilarious love affair with the Caribbean, and, occasionally, his wife. Each chapter recounts another island-hopping, culture-clashing crisis that pits the homesick author against falling coconuts, singing Rastas, topless beaches, cricket, steel drum bands, and even the French. Screamingly funny and often poignant, Gary Buslik plies the Caribbean with shark eye and barracuda wit.

Praise for A Rotten Person Travels the Carribean

“If you threw P.J. O’Rourke and Paul Theroux in a blender with some cheap rum and prune juice, you might get a cocktail as hilariously astringent as Gary Buslik’s politically incorrect travelogue. This curmudgeon’s tour of the islands should set tourism back a few years. Though...oddly...it makes me want to go there now. But that’s probably the Chicago winter.”
—Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil’s Highway and The Hummingbird’s Daughter

“If I were an immigration officer in the Caribbean, I would never let this man enter my country!”
—Tom Miller, author of Trading with the Enemy: A Yankee Travels through Castro’s Cuba and The Panama Hat Trail

“Fast-paced, quick-witted, and dangerously irreverent. Grumpiness has seldom been so much fun!”
—Elliott Hester, author of Adventures of a Continental Drifter and the bestselling Plane Insanity

“When Gary Buslik dies, study his brain. We have to prevent the same thing happening again.”
—Daniel P. Luce, inmate counselor, Stateville Penitentiary, Joliet, Illinois

“I blame myself.”
—Shirley Buslik, Gary’s mother

Extended Copyright Information

Copyright 2008 by Gary Buslik. All rights reserved.

Previously published by Travelers' Tales, an imprint of Solas House.

Cover design by Ian Shimkoviak.

About the Author

Gary Buslik doesn’t have the faintest idea how to make an honest living. When he wrote for travel magazines, he discovered that by tossing around insincere promises he could get hotels and restaurants to give him free room and meals and so managed to forge a useless profession into a rewarding lifestyle.

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_For my friends_.
_This is what I was doing while you were making a living_.
WE WERE IN MUSTIQUE, AN EASTERN CARIBBEAN “hideaway” island, and our taxi driver had just given us a drive-by of Mick Jagger’s estate, Princess Margaret’s winter mansion, and the vacation homes of two or three ...

Copyright

Copyright 2008 by Gary Buslik.

All Rights Reserved.