No, I Won't Buy You a Drink!
Memoirs of Travel, Illness and Authenticity in the Face-to-Face World of the 1990s
A raw travel memoir about hearing loss, chronic illness, backpacking across four continents, and discovering that genuine human connection still matters.
★★★★★ "A trip down memory lane for every backpacker"
★★★★★ "Very absorbing and easy to read"
★★★★★ "Fantastic pre-digital travel journey"
Available now worldwide on Amazon, Apple Books, Google Play, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Indigo, Everand, Storytel, and Bookmate.
Perfect For Readers Who:
- Miss the unfiltered travel of the pre-social-media era
- Enjoy honest memoirs about illness, identity and resilience
- Question transactional social norms and surface-level connection
- Believe authentic human connection still matters
- Love backpacking stories from the 1990s
Written by Brisbane author D.J. Gifford, the book follows Ricardo as he travels across Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom, North America and the Bahamas while navigating hearing loss and chronic illness.
From backpacker hostels and rugby clubs to detention centres, hospital wards and border crossings, the journey reveals what happens when observation, curiosity and authenticity replace performance and social expectations.
This is not a story about overcoming disability. It is a story about paying attention.
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