At twenty-three, Tomislav Naskov left home with a laptop, a backpack, and no plan beyond the next paycheck. What followed was nearly two decades on the road: funding a life across six continents by working remotely from wherever he happened to be, instead of waiting for retirement to see the world.
He floated in the Dead Sea he had dreamed about since he was five years old. He swam through a sea cave in Portugal that only opens when the waves allow it, while a crowd of strangers watched and applauded from the cliffs above. He stood on a Cairo street where a tank, a camel, and a city bus shared the same lane during a coup, kept safe by locals who became lifelong friends. He hiked past forgotten stretches of the Great Wall, tried every kind of sangria Cuba makes, watched the sun rise over Angkor Wat, and stood in the silence just outside Chernobyl's reactor.
Wander While You're Young is not a guidebook. It is the true story of what happens when you stop waiting for the right time to see the world, told country by country, friendship by friendship, from the Balkans to Southeast Asia to the Middle East and back again. It makes the case, one true story at a time, for a simple idea: the years when you have the least to lose are exactly the years you should spend losing yourself in it. The world has more to teach you before you're forty. Go learn it, then decide where you belong.