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a b o u t t h e a u t h o r

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abriel Morris was born in Vancouver, Canada, raised in rural
Northern California, and has also lived in Alaska, Hawaii,
and Oregon. He is an outdoors enthusiast, spiritual seeker,
and cultural explorer who has traveled sporadically since the age of
eighteen, and will undoubtedly continue to do so. When not thumb-
ing or otherwise meandering around the world, he generally calls the
West Coast home. He is featured in the hitchhiking travel anthology
No Such Thing as a Free Ride? (Cassell Illustrated, 200) as well as vari-
ous online publications. His personal Website address is gabrielmor-
ris.bravehost.com. This is his first book.