March 6, 2012 — Hamden, CT — In today’s reality of financial insecurity, one man has decided to turn the idea of security on its head and pursue a life most people only dream about.
In 2011, Norm Schriever, a successful entrepreneur who was living in Sacramento, California, sold his house and cars, and then sold or donated all of his material possessions and moved to the seaside town of Tamarindo, Costa Rica, in Central America.
His reason? To write. One year later, the author has released his first book, a collection of vignettes from the year he traveled the world from 1999-2000. &nb sp;
Pushups in the Prayer Room: Reflections from a Year Backpacking Around the World (Authority Publishing, ISBN-13 978-1-935953-32-6, $17.95, paperback; $7.99, ebook, 230 pages, March 2011) by Norm Schriever, details the highs and lows of the author’s journeys through more than 20 countries in 6 continents, spanning 70,000 miles total.
From the book’s jacket copy: "There is never a dull moment on this wild and irreverent adventure, whether Norm is evading armed carjackers in a high-speed chase in the barrios of Venezuela, exploring ancient wonders of the world like the pyramids, the Great Wall, and Machu Picchu, almost landing in a Bolivian jail when framed for cocaine trafficking, or witnessing the holiest sites on earth in Jerusalem. Along the way, Norm encounters a broad spectrum of human existence and experiences a blossoming of consciousness and spiritual growth that he never anticipated. What started out as a wild, raucous party trip evolves into a man’s quest for his life’s purpose in the world."
Schriever, who is donating a portion of the book’s proceeds to several charities including Kiva, Farm Haiti, and Trafigura Work and Learn Business Center, says of his year abroad, “I was just a crazy, confused kid going into it, and when I came back I was a conscious man with a pinpoint of certainty about who I was and what I wanted my life’s purpose to be. But it took me a lot of years to figure out what to do with that meaning. I had no idea I would become an author or come full circle and live in Costa Rica. Hell, I had no idea about all of this even a year ago! That’s how fast everything has happened.”
Norm Schriever grew up in Connecticut and graduated from the University of Connecticut. He went on to live in North Carolina, California, and Colorado, and now resides in Tamarindo, Costa Rica, with nothing but a surfboard and a laptop to his name. He plans to publish a second book soon about life as a U.S. expat living in Costa Rica.
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