Böcker av Sean Siverly

Long before he took a seat at Churchill's place in Sacramento, California, the Chief was a man of the world: traveling for work, for adventure, and more than anything---for love. From his earliest moments as a young man visiting Cuba, he knew he wanted to be a 'seeker.' Just Me, A Beach, and A Bar follows the Chief as he makes friends (and drinks) in exotic locales, all while trying to find himself and pursuing the five Ls---the keys to true happiness and fulfillment. Just Me, A Beach, and A Bar is a memoir of one man's travels through time and place; learning lessons of love, loss, and life in general---in the islands and beyond.

This sequel to Old 27 finds Roland McCallum alone and fighting with the demons of his present, while being haunted by the memories and the voices of his past. On a daily basis, he struggles with sorrow and hardship and addiction. Roland has lost everything he's held dear, but still seeks the path to absolution and redemption. He searches for solutions on social media, scrolling through faces and names from better times. One night he decides to dig up old bones and begins a search that takes him back thirty long, desperate years. He hopes that this will help him find answers to the questions that have plagued him for all this time, and the happiness that has eluded him for so long.

As a writer of travelogues, Louis DeCarlo has been there and done that. Unfortunately, his most recent travels have left him with a case of writer's block-lost and devoid of vision. He needs a break. More than that, he needs an adventure. Enter the Chief: a man who has not only been there and done that but has experienced and embraced both the people and the places, as well. However, for all he's seen and done, he too has become lost and empty and in need of something new. Both men are searching for their next great story but don't know how or where to find it. Oddly enough, they discover the answer in a bottle at a bar where they meet. It seems a strange solution and an even stranger pairing, but what ensues is a journey to find not only the key to cracking Louis's writer's block but also the Chief's five elements to happiness and, ultimately, themselves. The men travel from place to place, seeing sights and meeting people, while drinking, dining, laughing, crying, and enjoying life and learning lessons along the way. Excursions with the Chief is more than a mere trip-it's a cross-country adventure of a lifetime.