Bob Payne

SILVER MEDAL WINNER 2023 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS

AWARD FINALIST 2023 INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS

FINALIST 2023 INDEPENDENT AUTHORS NETWORK BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS

Amazon Reader Reviews

"A new classic of travel writing."

"Amazing adventures told by a master storyteller."

"Hilariously written jewel."

"Escape Clauses is a marvel."

"Real, raw adventures."

"Conveying his love for the strange and exotic."

"Both exciting and humorous."

"Remarkable life of travel and adventure.

"A funny and frightening far-flung memoir."

"A travel writer's travel writer."

"Will leave you looking forward to the next journey and wishing the story had no end."

When people ask Bob Payne how to get started at travel writing, he often tells them that running away from home at 15 and hitchhiking alone around America is what worked for him. In his 142-country memoir, Escape Clauses -- Getting Away With a Travel Writing Life, Payne chronicles how he parlayed that first solo adventure into decades of world travel by seeking out strangers in far places and making their stories a part of his own.

Bob Payne is an award-winning travel writer who has visited more than 140 countries. His travel humor has appeared in publications that include Outside, Men's Journal, Islands, Bon Appetit, and Conde Nast Traveler, where he was a long-time Contributing Editor and is believed to be their only writer ever to put the cost of a Polynesian tattoo on an expense report. His work has been called notable by the series The Best American Travel Writing.