{"product_id":"9780615699257","title":"Off the Grid: Travel Tales of a Broke, Risk-Taking, Twenty-Something-Year-Old Do-Gooder Across Six Continents","description":"Stefanie, a feisty, risky, young professional, has three main passions in life: altruism, adventure, and international travel. She lives her life by pushing her boundaries and engaging her passions as much as possible. Despite working lucrative jobs that pay a whopping $12\/hour, Stefanie managed to fund travels spanning six continents, all fifty states, and over 80 countries by her late twenties. She slept on train station floors, worked on a farm in Australia in exchange for food and accommodation, and lived as a volunteer in a roach-infested shack in Dominican Republic. \u003cp\u003eStefanie's love for adventure has led her to participate in exciting, thrill-seeking activities from swimming with great white sharks to bungee jumping over Victoria Falls. Her love for adventure has also led her to sitting bottom-less and spread eagle on a hospital bed in Thailand covered in third- degree burns after a failed attempt to jump through a burning ring of fire. But that's okay- Stefanie is used to being the Murphy's Law of traveling. She has encountered severe dehydration on a New Zealand road trip, been chased by bed bugs in Australia, set off a bomb scare at LAX after a battle with a skunk, experienced altitude sickness hiking to the basecamp of Mt. Everest without training (after she fired her guide!), survived a deadly, 8.0 earthquake in Peru, sprained her ankle hiking an active volcano in Guatemala, and fended off leaches and rats in Malaysia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStefanie, always the adventurer, finds herself studying serial killers in Pretoria, starting her own disaster relief campaign to provide aid to earthquake victims she interviewed in Haiti, and winning a naked cliff diving competition in Greece. She encounters many foreign men along the way, often acting like a reckless, drunken college sorority girl. Off The Grid is a collection of short stories detailing these travel adventures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AdventuresOffTheGrid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027018170608,"sku":"9780615699257","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780615699257_p0.jpg?v=1763599558","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780615699257","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}