Summary

Part II (also Chapter 2) encompasses January 2005 to January 2006. This part opens on Grennan's adventures traveling the globe. It was mid-January, 2005. When he had first started out, before hitting Nepal, he had thought of traveling the world as a party. Meeting up with Little Glenn, a friend of his, in Thailand, proved to be more of that kind of experience. They biked and boated through more than a dozen countries, catching up with another friend. They drank and impressed women in bars with their stories.

The countries in southeast Asia and South America were impoverished, and cherished the money that Grennan and his friends were flashing around. Sometimes friends and family would catch up to him. Sometimes he was alone. Sometimes he joined groups of backpackers doing the same things he was doing. He lived a variety of experiences in a relatively short amount of...