Don’t Pee in the Wetsuit: A Worldwide Romp Through Grief, Laughter and Forgiveness
Michelle Kennedy watched live coverage of a fiery, multi-car accident for an entire day before recognizing her father’s Chevy pickup pinned between the two semi-trucks. A television news reporter at the time, she narrowly avoided being assigned to cover the collision that killed her father. Suddenly a part of the news she’d reported on for years, Kennedy longed to run away from broadcasting, her life, and looped images of her father’s body underneath a yellow tarp.
Blending reverent reflection with rollicking adventure, Don’t Pee in the Wetsuit is a travel memoir about Kennedy’s attempt to sift through an unresolved relationship with her dad on a six-month trip around the world. Gallivanting through eleven countries with a best friend, Kennedy loses her clothes in Costa Rica, swims with bull sharks in Australia, gets scolded for peeing in her wetsuit on a cave tour in New Zealand, and overindulges on food, wine, and foreign men. Writing on the road, she struggles to forgive her father’s shortcomings and make peace with losing the first love of her life.
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You’ll cry, laugh and you’ll travel all over the world … I bought this book because Michelle has been my Multimedia Communications Professor at a San Francisco University for two different classes, over two years, and I have always admired her.This book is full of well crafted stories, interesting characters and adventure. Her stories take place all over the world and you’ll be sure to cry and laugh all the way thorough. Without giving it all away, I had to put the book down for a couple of days after reading the second chapter because I…
You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry… and you’ll say it’s the best $14.95 you’ve spent in a LONG time LOVED THIS BOOK! Where do I begin to write a review… well: as a 40-something-year-old man that has no wife, ex-wife or children (yet is surprisingly heterosexual) — I’m probably not the ideal Target Audience for this book — HOWEVER! I could not have loved it anymore! Autobiographer Michelle Kennedy takes you on a fully transparent journey through inappropriate laughter, big adventures, bad decisions, unexpected family death, mourning, sadness, back to roll-on-the-ground laughter… and by…