Trips That Went South Pulls Readers Far From Their Comfort Zone
Media Release
November 1, 2024 – Lion’s Head, Ontario – Jules Torti, the former editor-in-chief of Harrowsmith magazine and current content writer for Wild Women Expeditions has released her first collection of travel short stories published by Nova Scotia’s Pottersfield Press. In 2021, Torti won Pottersfield’s Creative Prize for Nonfiction with her nostalgic foodie memoir, Been There, Ate That: A Candy-coated Childhood. This summer she was a guest on CBC’s Maritime Noon, sharing candid moments from the Camino de Santiago and her hurricane-soaked wedding in Heart’s Content, Newfoundland.
Trips That Went South: From Point A to B(eware) is a quirky collection of unraveled travels overlapped by trench foot, intestinal parasites, tick bite fever, supersonic diarrhea, runaway buses and thieving baboons. Prepare for a high-octane joy ride—all sorts of rides actually. There’s a jungle helicopter rescue, a hot air balloon ride tainted by an uncooperative GI tract, a captain’s request to leave a ship in the Seychelles and a very different version of bike ride under the influence of the Northern Lights as seen in Amsterdam. From a volunteer stint in the soggy Costa Rica rainforest to the Jane Goodall Institute in Uganda and a chimpanzee sanctuary in the Congo, opportunity has been ripe for things to go sideways for Torti. Her misadventure archives revisit her most daunting experiences with mud massages in Colombia, spelunking with a convict in Belize and one unforgettable ping pong demonstration in Bangkok.
Along the way there’s a questionable menu of guinea pig, crocodile pizza, goat testicles, camel stew, piranha and fermented shark to digest too. Trips That Went South is available on amazon.ca, Indigo, Chapters or at your favourite local independent by request. Torti has a limited number of copies available for purchase as well. Please contact her directly at julestorti88@gmail.com for details. Bonus: It’s carry-on friendly for your next trip!
