I Promised You Adventure: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Traveling the World

By: Robert Downes, Jeannette Wildman

Narrated by: Robert Downes

I Promised You Adventure explores the global phenomenon of backpacking as a low-cost style of adventure travel that has been embraced by hundreds of thousands of wanderers of all ages, with do-it-yourself insights into planning your own “trip of a lifetime".

Authors Robert Downes and Jeannette Wildman spent seven months backpacking around the world, starting in the mountains of Tasmania, then traveling through Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, the Mideast, Croatia, and Italy. Their insights and travel tips are invaluable in planning your own intercontinental trip, with ideas for destinations, saving money, and staying safe. Highlights include the lowdown on camping in Australia, the best of India and Southeast Asia, and cycling Croatia and Tuscany.

Traveling around the world is one of the last great epic adventures that's doable for the average person!

©2018 Robert Downes (P)2019 Robert Downes

Felt like I was with them

This account was a well written personal trip of two likable people that brought you along with them in their adventures and their outlook on life and life around the planet. Starting with their marriage and courtship and onto their big trip, the images were nicely described somewhat suspenseful, always entertaining in the long tradition of journal traveling. This was the first completely contemporary trip that I’ve come across that had some of the same charm of the 19th century explorers that I’m used to reading about.

Now I will confess that I know the travelers being from their hometown and having read previous books by Robert Downes, so my expectations were high going into it, but there was no disappointment, and in fact, it was even more fun than I thought it would be to hear the story through. I ended up sharing my enthusiasm with a few other friends and they seem to be enjoying it just as much now that they’ve downloaded the copy.