George: "You know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are?
Uncle Billy: Uh-huh, Breakfast is served, lunch is served, dinner...
George: No, no, no, no! Anchor chains, plane motors, and train whistles...
Doing It For George is the hilarious account of a round-the-world trip of a lifetime that takes the reader to the heart of the Hollywood classic, It’s A Wonderful Life, starring James Stewart as George Bailey.
Author, Bob Maddams, grew up loving the movie. So when he hit his own George Bailey style mid-life crisis, he decided to do what George never got the chance to - and go see the world.
“There I was,” he says, “a mature and experienced man in the prime of his life, what could possible go wrong?” Doing It For George is the knockabout story of everything that did.
Bob’s oddball odyssey began in India and took in Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia before he hit the west coast of the USA and decided to “Go east young man.”
Highlights included travelling on overnight trains across northern India, being the oldest backpacker in town on Bangkok's notorious Khoa San Road, going in search of Suxzy Wong in Hong Kong, getting picked up by a looney-tune in a karaoke bar in LA, paddling down the Mississsippi in a canoe with a modern day Huckleberry Finn, and being turned over by a glamorous hooker in Times Square.
George is seldom from our intrepid traveller's thoughts as he pinballs around the globe from one comic crisis to another. Finally, in New York State he ends up in the town the locals claim to be the inspiration for Bedord Falls in the film. Here he meets Karolyn Grimes, the child actress who played George's youngest daughter, Zuzu, when she was six years old, and goes in search of the truth behind the town's claim to be "The Real Bedford Falls".
Doing It For George is a hilarious account of a rollercoaster ride around the world, a loving tribute to a Hollywood classic, and the longest advertisement for the benefits of travel insurance ever written.
Uncle Billy: Uh-huh, Breakfast is served, lunch is served, dinner...
George: No, no, no, no! Anchor chains, plane motors, and train whistles...
Doing It For George is the hilarious account of a round-the-world trip of a lifetime that takes the reader to the heart of the Hollywood classic, It’s A Wonderful Life, starring James Stewart as George Bailey.
Author, Bob Maddams, grew up loving the movie. So when he hit his own George Bailey style mid-life crisis, he decided to do what George never got the chance to - and go see the world.
“There I was,” he says, “a mature and experienced man in the prime of his life, what could possible go wrong?” Doing It For George is the knockabout story of everything that did.
Bob’s oddball odyssey began in India and took in Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia before he hit the west coast of the USA and decided to “Go east young man.”
Highlights included travelling on overnight trains across northern India, being the oldest backpacker in town on Bangkok's notorious Khoa San Road, going in search of Suxzy Wong in Hong Kong, getting picked up by a looney-tune in a karaoke bar in LA, paddling down the Mississsippi in a canoe with a modern day Huckleberry Finn, and being turned over by a glamorous hooker in Times Square.
George is seldom from our intrepid traveller's thoughts as he pinballs around the globe from one comic crisis to another. Finally, in New York State he ends up in the town the locals claim to be the inspiration for Bedord Falls in the film. Here he meets Karolyn Grimes, the child actress who played George's youngest daughter, Zuzu, when she was six years old, and goes in search of the truth behind the town's claim to be "The Real Bedford Falls".
Doing It For George is a hilarious account of a rollercoaster ride around the world, a loving tribute to a Hollywood classic, and the longest advertisement for the benefits of travel insurance ever written.
