'The Author weaves a glorious thread round the world...and across these pages.' Trailfinders, London Unhappy, disillusioned, bankrupt and divorced; Howie Cobb decided to run away. Instead of a spotty hanky on a stick, he took his backpack. Shortly after arriving in Asia, he realised that he was also part of a phenomenon - Backpackers. Could he fit in? be accepted - at his age? " I crammed ten years' living into one, and my trip became a love story, comic farce, bawdy romp; an education, a tragedy - a new beginning." Howie Cobb Howie left home in the late '90s. Where is he now? Read how his...