ASIN: B00AB77JJC
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 145
Do miracles really happen?An American teacher attempts to travel for a month across Turkey relying on the generosity of strangers to prove to his students that people can be trusted.When his high school kids claim the world is evil, Mark Dickinson puts good will to the test through a blog asking readers to not only vote on a foreign country for him to visit but also pay for the trip. Aside from telling six friends, he depends solely on the blog for all publicity and donations, hoping providence will provide.During the 15-city, 2,000-mile adventure, the teacher faces numerous obstacles, including not knowing if he’ll have enough cash for his next meal, let alone for transportation or shelter; being forced to stay overnight with hosts he’s never met; and mistakenly hitchhiking with gangsters, but through a series of serendipitous encounters, he begins to set aside his own fears and ...
