Featured Author Conor Grennan Conor Grennan is an Irish-American who grew up on the East Coast of the United States; he never had a particularly strong urge to travel. Upon graduating from the University of Virginia in 1996, however, and judging himself to be utterly unemployable after having majored in Political Science, he fled the United States for the Bohemian capital of Prague, mostly because it sounded intriguing. Through dumb luck, Conor fell into a job working in international public policy, and ended up living in Prague for the next six and a half years. In August of 2004 he decided he needed another change, so he quit his job and embarked on a one-year solo trip around the world. During that time he was almost crushed by a falling camel in India, nearly froze to death on an air-conditioned bus in Vietnam, almost drowned while trying to cycle through Sri Lanka in the monsoon season, and survived probably the first ever paragliding course in Bolivia-taught in a language he did not understand. Conor now splits his time between living in the US and working at an orphanage for trafficked children in rural Nepal. To learn more about Conor, check out his web site at www.conorgrennan.com. Watch for Conor's writing in I Sold My Gold Tooth for Gas Money, where you can read about the risks of ordering breakfast in Ecuador or taking public transit in Cambodia. Conor also tackles the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal for Mugged by a Moose, and writes about coming face to face with an ongoing nemesis: the mighty Himalayan yak. Go To Conor's Sample Chapter < Back to Writer Spotlight Main Page
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