Chasing Hunter S. Thompson Through South America - Brian Kevin

Hunter S. Thompson is famous for his Gonzo Journalism, but the man wasn't always the "hell on wheels, drug crazed" author most people remember. Bryan Kevin follows in the footsteps of the famous author's trek around South America as a "sincere, eager, green journalist" interesed in "Cold War politics and sociology." Kevin discovered that while much of the continent to this day is still affected by past Cold War era policy, civil disobedience is no longer a perilous situation. Kevin's book, "The Footloose American," recalls Thompson backpacked through South America before the trend was a common occurrence, and that Thompson's Law of travel economics stated one should "Go right ahead, do what you will, and damn the cost, it will all come out in the wash."