The Traveler & the Gate Checkers
AN ASIAN TRAVELOGUE FROM TED LERNER, AUTHOR OF ‘HEY,JOE‘
“A hilarious look at traveling around Asia.”
–Stars and Stripes Newspaper
“A journey that is by turns bizarre, joyful, surreal, mysterious.” 
–ASIA TIMES ONLINE
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For most people, life comes down to a daily chore of pile management. But for a traveler like Ted Lerner, life often revolves around dealing with Gate Checkers. Gate Checkers? Yes, those people given a badge, a stamp and the authority to stop you from getting where you want to go.
In this his second book, the American author of the hilarious Philippine adventure, “Hey,Joe,” takes to the road in the gate checker capital of the world, Asia. No matter the obstacles, though, Lerner never fails to uncover the juicy stories and one-of-a-kind adventures in the world’s largest and most populated continent.
The book leads off with an epic journey through tortuously crowded India, revealing the sheer madness, and brilliance, of an ancient land simultaneously exploding with history and modernity. And plenty of touts who will sell you a piece of both.
A trip to Japan leads to a bizarre journey inside the wildly popular and often depraved world of Japanese professional wrestling, culminating in a hair-raising, ring side seat for a barbaric “death” match inside a sadistically booby trapped, barbed wire cage wired with explosives and live electricity.
Lerner then travels to high class Hong Kong, where in one of the city’s most notorious landmarks, he discovers a colorful, multi-cultural base that provides for some low down diversion.
Then a lark to the practically untouched country of Laos unfolds into a beautifully told travel tale that opens the doors to the South East Asia of old. And, finally, Lerner revisits the teeming and seedy heart of Manila, where he finds the voluptuous Miss Belgium, a chance encounter with the big boss, and a date with Ole Blue Eyes himself.
Part travelogue, part reportage, part outrageously good fun, this collection of five original travel tales will bring you decidedly off the beaten path, traveling as few foreigners dare, on journeys as unique as the countries themselves. From sex to death and all the colorful life in between, Ted Lerner’s The Traveler and the Gate Checkers presents a fresh and unusual version of Asia. So open your heart and mind and get ready for the ride. But remember; watch out for those gate checkers!
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‘The Traveler and the Gate Checkers’ is available through www.tedlerner.com for $14.95 plus shipping. You can pay with Paypal, Google Checkout and personal check. You can add it to your cart right here…
“The Traveler and the Gate Checkers” is now available nationwide throughout the Philippines at all..
Also available in the Philippines at Fully Booked, Power Books, NBS Best Seller, Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminals 1, 2,3, & at Manila Domestic Airports.
If you’re visiting Angeles City while you’re in the Philippines you can also purchase ‘The Traveler and the Gate Checkers’ at the following locations:
CPI CALL SHOP AND BUSINESS CAFE
THE TOURIST CENTER/FILIPINO TRAVEL CENTER CHECKPOINT
WILD ORCHID HOTEL
ORCHID INN
PACIFIC BREEZE HOTEL
SWAGMAN HOTEL
CENTRAL PARK HOTEL
SM CLARK, NATIONAL BOOK STORE
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