The Fine Line Between Success and Failure
Have you ever stopped to think about how the difference between success and failure, or inspiration and idiocy, is really just one small mishap?
Torre DeRoche is the author of two travel memoirs, Love with a Chance of Drowning (2013) and The Worrier’s Guide to the End of the World (due out September 2017). She has written for The Atlantic, The Guardian Travel, The Sydney Morning Herald, Emirates, and two Lonely Planet anthologies.
Have you ever stopped to think about how the difference between success and failure, or inspiration and idiocy, is really just one small mishap?
How a quick motorcycle trip through the Bolaven Plateau in Southern Laos turned into a love affair with motorbikes.
Caz Makepeace confesses a moment of sheer terror. “My 2 girlfriends and I wanted to tour Samosir Island, Sumatra on motorbikes. Not knowing how to drive them, we hired 3 local drivers, who we soon figured out must have been tripping on the magic mushrooms the area is famous for …”
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