"Sunsets in the Caribbean"
Welcome
Time Zones, Beer, & Left-Handed Chopsticks is a quirky, humorous collection relating the author’s experiences traveling the world. Told with a keen eye for detail and a sly wit, Blanton captures many facets of travel—from frustrating to funny.
As a man who has spent much of his career away from home, Blanton brings a voice of experience to his tales of life abroad. Readers will appreciate his quick wit and often self-deprecating sense of humor. Blanton is adept at showing that no matter how different people may seem, the same problems and fears plague us all.
Most people associate travel with well-planned vacations to a tropical paradise. For the business traveler, travel usually means a last second trip that involves an uncomfortable seat on a long flight and sitting next to a person who has enough
gas stored up in his body to fuel a small country. When your home address includes the words “International Airport” it usually means that you have given up many of the things that most people take for granted such as having a family, eating a home cooked meal, and getting up in the morning and not finding a rooster in your shower stall.
Bruce Blanton has traveled the world (he has also been to Texas) as a business traveler for more than 25 years. He has experienced the good, the bad, and the totally bizarre throughout his many trips. Bruce Blanton has put together his favorite memories in his book Time Zones, Beer, and Left Handed Chopsticks which is a collection of humorous adventures, mishaps, and personal thoughts that have come from his years of travel around the globe. In Bruce’s book, Bruce uses his humor to describe his experiences with used appetizers, toilets with speakers, a well-dressed duck, and so much more.
About the Author
After spending the summer of 1981 watching rejected semiconductor parts boil in cyanide as he sat in the basement of a refinery, Bruce Blanton thought a career change at Intel Corporation might be in order. He somehow managed to persuade his superiors to transfer him into an area where his “people” skills would be better utilized, and shortly thereafter he ended up in a training group. Over the past 25 years, his quick wit, dry humor, and sometimes hard to believe personal experiences have proved to be an integral training tool in each and every class taught. Bruce is now the training manager for a manufacturing company in Tempe, Arizona where he spends 80% of his time traveling the world, teaching classes, and interacting with people of all cultures. It is his ability to “re-paint” his travel experiences in the mind of his readers that make his work humorous and unforgettable.