Raised on a ranch in Colorado, I went to university in Washington, DC, and won a Fulbright to Latin America, where I was a stringer for the New York Times and learned the hard way about carnival, coups, and cholera.
I later worked as a reporter on Wall Street and Fleet Street before writing a couple of travel books:
True Brits: A Tour of 21st-Century Britain in all its Bog-Snorkeling, Gurning and Cheese-Rolling Glory
and
Eurotripping: A Bottom-Blowing, Baby-Jumping, Matchmaking Odyssey around Europe
Britain's Observer newspaper named True Brits a Book of the Week, calling it 'immensely funny,' while Time magazine described it as 'an obsessive, down-and-dirty travelogue:'
'Daeschner's forays into cussed British culture blur the lines between past and present. And his plunging into bog snorkelling to witness tradition in the making means we don't have to. He clearly passes the dope test.'Which I prefer to take as a compliment.
If you'd like to see what I look like in person, in some very dodgy videos, check out my YouTube site.
But remember: I warned you.
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