Midlife crisis, his life's dreams at an early end, it was time to bust out and see the world.

Nowick Gray sets out with backpack and drum to find out what he's been missing. Tropical warmth, better health, inner peace... He scours Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Latin America for that perfect beach, a new tribe, a winter home. Will ayahuasca heal his woes, or an ayurvedic cleanse? Beset by desperate touts on an abandoned Bali shore, he knows he's a dying breed: the last tourist.