Sussman’s first ramble was supposed to be a week-long family road trip from a Chicago tenement to Miami Beach. On day one he got sun poisoning. Day two, his mother developed a crippling toothache. Day three, they packed up and drove home. But five-year-old Sussman was hooked. Travel would become a major part of his life. Now in his 80’s, Sussman shares a lifetime of worldwide travel--tales of excitement, fear, adventure, and love--in his funny and touching memoir, Barry’s Rambles.