Where the Geckos Laugh - Free Nook Book

WHERE THE GECKOS LAUGH, my move to the Caribbean, and other tales 
by Kevin Hill 

In 1985 I sold everything and set out in search of an inexpensive area where I could write a novel that was churning within me. Where the Geckos Laugh bit.ly/L36Dsj is a collection of funny stories from that wondrous time, as well as other travel tales taken from 10+ years of roaming the world with a back pack.

I found an abandoned little house 100' from the Caribbean, gathered driftwood to fashion a writing table, and on a manual Royal typewriter, with a kerosine lantern humming into the hot night, I sat and clacked out the first drafts of Falling Up. I carried water in a 20 liter jug, and set it in the sun for my showers. A hammock strung beneath a mosquito net was my bed. Geckos laughed like an old witch at night. A feral cat would sneak in during the day as I sat typing, and suddenly leap up the wall and snatch a lizard in her mouth, or rip apart a plastic bag on the driftwood table, and steal a piece of bread.