Mark Orwoll
@markorwoll.bsky.social
Person of interest. Notorious waterfront character. Notify authorities if you see this man. Also, author, journalist, husband and father. Probably good for a small loan, depending on your spiel. Plays mandolin, not well but with gusto.
When I flew to California, my real goal was to see some famous people. It didn't work out very well until, unexpectedly, it did. (Don't forget to subscribe to Mark Orwoll Is at It Again! It's free.) markorwoll.substack.com/p/famous-sta...
Famous Stars Who Have Known Me
They're crawling out of the woodwork! From New York to California! Actually, ONLY in New York and California. Whatever. Just read and you'll get my point: Celebrities! Me!
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November 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
When I flew to California, my real goal was to see some famous people. It didn't work out very well until, unexpectedly, it did. (Don't forget to subscribe to Mark Orwoll Is at It Again! It's free.) markorwoll.substack.com/p/famous-sta...
We have the Man Cave. In England, they have the Man SHED. Sometimes they even have a Pub Shed! See, this is why there will always be an England while we in the States are barely climbing out of the primordial ooze. Mark Orwoll Is at It Again, so have a peek. markorwoll.substack.com/p/the-joys-o...
The Joys of a Man Shed
The joys of a British Man Shed—or better yet, a Pub Shed—define the essence of the United Kingdom
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November 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
We have the Man Cave. In England, they have the Man SHED. Sometimes they even have a Pub Shed! See, this is why there will always be an England while we in the States are barely climbing out of the primordial ooze. Mark Orwoll Is at It Again, so have a peek. markorwoll.substack.com/p/the-joys-o...
When did Rod Serling take over the New York dining scene? Rumpled chicken skin and chicken feet for $175 per person?! Here's my latest Substack column—with bonus content! markorwoll.substack.com/p/the-part-t...
The Part That Went Over the Fence Last
When did it become too expensive to eat in New York restaurants? Seriously. When did this happen, and why did no one tell me?
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November 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
When did Rod Serling take over the New York dining scene? Rumpled chicken skin and chicken feet for $175 per person?! Here's my latest Substack column—with bonus content! markorwoll.substack.com/p/the-part-t...
Another Substack?! Please, God, no... Yes! It's "Mark Orwoll Is At It Again." I hope it'll make you smile. Travel, oddballs, strange food, maybe cute dogs. But always good humor (and no politics). So join us, won't you? It'd be strange if I sat there all by myself... substack.com/home/post/p-...
Another Substack? Please, God, No...
Mark Orwoll decides to get in on the action
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October 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Another Substack?! Please, God, no... Yes! It's "Mark Orwoll Is At It Again." I hope it'll make you smile. Travel, oddballs, strange food, maybe cute dogs. But always good humor (and no politics). So join us, won't you? It'd be strange if I sat there all by myself... substack.com/home/post/p-...
Just One Little Hitch is finally available as an audiobook from Audible. Click on the "preview" link to get a free sample. Would love a review (if you like it)! The audiobook will be available on Amazon and iTunes in a couple of days. Thanks for your support! Peace.
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Just One Little Hitch
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. 1976. The ass end of the hippie era. Adrift in college, Mark Orwoll drops out in favor of the hitchhiker's road through Europe, the U.K., and Morocco. Along...
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April 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Just One Little Hitch is finally available as an audiobook from Audible. Click on the "preview" link to get a free sample. Would love a review (if you like it)! The audiobook will be available on Amazon and iTunes in a couple of days. Thanks for your support! Peace.
www.audible.com/pd/Just-One-...
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Today my 25-minute interview with the charming, talented, and hugely well-traveled @PaulineFrommer went live! Thanks, Pauline, for building on your dad's legacy at @frommers.bsky.social and for this morning's interview. Fun! Enjoy, and follow Pauline's podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
Hitchhiking Through Europe and Morocco in the 1970's
Podcast Episode · The Frommer's Travel Show · 04/20/2025 · 31m
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April 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Today my 25-minute interview with the charming, talented, and hugely well-traveled @PaulineFrommer went live! Thanks, Pauline, for building on your dad's legacy at @frommers.bsky.social and for this morning's interview. Fun! Enjoy, and follow Pauline's podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
Ever been to the Texas Hill Country? You should definitely go! My latest feature for East/West News Service is about German immigration to the Hill Country and how you can still enjoy that heritage today, 175 years later. www.eastwestnewsservice.com/wilkommen-in...
Wilkommen in Texas Hill Country - Travel & Cultural Analysis From Around the World | East-West News Service
East-West News Service covers travel and in-depth cultural analysis from around the world, edited by journalist and author David DeVoss.
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March 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Ever been to the Texas Hill Country? You should definitely go! My latest feature for East/West News Service is about German immigration to the Hill Country and how you can still enjoy that heritage today, 175 years later. www.eastwestnewsservice.com/wilkommen-in...
My 20-minute interview aired today with legendary broadcaster and travel guru Peter Greenberg on Eye on Travel, the nationally syndicated CBS radio program. We talked about my new travel memoir, Just One Little Hitch, beginning at the 1-hour 30-minute mark: petergreenberg.com/2025/02/15/e...
Eye on Travel - New York City - February 15, 2025 - Peter Greenberg Travel Detective
This week’s broadcast of Eye on Travel is from The Ritz Carlton New York Central Park. I have all the updates on the continuing investigation of the mid-air collision at Washington Reagan. What the in...
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February 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM
My 20-minute interview aired today with legendary broadcaster and travel guru Peter Greenberg on Eye on Travel, the nationally syndicated CBS radio program. We talked about my new travel memoir, Just One Little Hitch, beginning at the 1-hour 30-minute mark: petergreenberg.com/2025/02/15/e...
A very nice plug today for my new book from Insider Travel Report! www.insidertravelreport.com?s=travel-wri...
Insider Travel Report
Insider Travel Report
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November 26, 2024 at 1:17 PM
A very nice plug today for my new book from Insider Travel Report! www.insidertravelreport.com?s=travel-wri...
My book, "Just One Little Hitch," is Amazon's #1 Hot New Release—in the Historical African Biographies category. Boy, oh boy, this is so wrong, considering that a) it is more hysterical than historical, b) I'm not African, and c) it's a memoir, not a biography. Other than that, they nailed it!
November 24, 2024 at 10:32 PM
My book, "Just One Little Hitch," is Amazon's #1 Hot New Release—in the Historical African Biographies category. Boy, oh boy, this is so wrong, considering that a) it is more hysterical than historical, b) I'm not African, and c) it's a memoir, not a biography. Other than that, they nailed it!
I thought I'd give myself a civics lesson by watching the 1962 film "Advise and Consent." The plot follows the Senate confirmation process of the president's pick for Secretary of State. Apparently, in the olden days, politicians acted graciously even to those they despised. I want to go to there...
Advise & Consent (1962) ⭐ 7.7 | Drama, Thriller
2h 19m | Approved
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November 18, 2024 at 2:34 PM
I thought I'd give myself a civics lesson by watching the 1962 film "Advise and Consent." The plot follows the Senate confirmation process of the president's pick for Secretary of State. Apparently, in the olden days, politicians acted graciously even to those they despised. I want to go to there...
When did "bingo card" become the newest phrase? I didn't get the email, I guess. Must have read it 10 times in the past week.
November 15, 2024 at 7:05 PM
When did "bingo card" become the newest phrase? I didn't get the email, I guess. Must have read it 10 times in the past week.
Today's the big day! I hope you'll support one of your new Bluesky buddies and get a copy.
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Author Mark Orwoll Introduces His New Book, Just One Little Hitch
YouTube video by Mark Orwoll
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November 15, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Today's the big day! I hope you'll support one of your new Bluesky buddies and get a copy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBS-...
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Good morning, Bluesky! I joined only recently, and feel like a character in a Dystopian novel, trying to escape his evil overlords, who unexpectedly comes upon an outpost of sane and civilized people.
November 14, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Good morning, Bluesky! I joined only recently, and feel like a character in a Dystopian novel, trying to escape his evil overlords, who unexpectedly comes upon an outpost of sane and civilized people.
An excerpt! Everett Potter's Travel Report just published a chapter from my book, "Just One Little Hitch." Have a look.
An Excerpt from Mark Orwoll’s New Travel Memoir, "Just One Little Hitch" - Everett Potter's Travel Report
An Excerpt from Mark Orwoll’s New Travel Memoir, Just One Little Hitch: Curious Companions, Debatable Choices, and Life-Changing Revelations […]
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November 13, 2024 at 4:40 PM
An excerpt! Everett Potter's Travel Report just published a chapter from my book, "Just One Little Hitch." Have a look.
A reason that hitchhiking in the 1970s was so cool: The cars were awesome. Here are some of the car models I got rides from in my travel memoir, Just One Little Hitch (available 11-15 from Amazon). And yes, I got a ride from a mule cart. Follow the link for more: justonelittlehitch.com?page_id=806
November 13, 2024 at 4:39 PM
A reason that hitchhiking in the 1970s was so cool: The cars were awesome. Here are some of the car models I got rides from in my travel memoir, Just One Little Hitch (available 11-15 from Amazon). And yes, I got a ride from a mule cart. Follow the link for more: justonelittlehitch.com?page_id=806
Here's an excerpt! A chapter from my travel memoir, Just One Little Hitch, appeared this morning in Everett Potter's Travel Report. I'm over the moon to have it appear in such an influential travel site.
An Excerpt from Mark Orwoll’s New Travel Memoir, "Just One Little Hitch" - Everett Potter's Travel Report
An Excerpt from Mark Orwoll’s New Travel Memoir, Just One Little Hitch: Curious Companions, Debatable Choices, and Life-Changing Revelations […]
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November 13, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Here's an excerpt! A chapter from my travel memoir, Just One Little Hitch, appeared this morning in Everett Potter's Travel Report. I'm over the moon to have it appear in such an influential travel site.
Samantha Brown, host of PBS's "Places To Love", was too generous when she wrote a blurb for my new travel memoir, Just One Little Hitch: "I've long enjoyed Mark Orwoll's travel writing, and was delighted to discover the genesis of his storytelling in this hilarious and revealing memoir. So fun!"
Amazon.com: Just One Little Hitch: Curious Companions, Debatable Choices, and Life-Changing Revelations on the Hitchhikers' Road Through Europe and Morocco eBook : Orwoll, Mark: Kindle Store
Buy Just One Little Hitch: Curious Companions, Debatable Choices, and Life-Changing Revelations on the Hitchhikers' Road Through Europe and Morocco: Read Kindle Store Reviews - Amazon.com
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November 13, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Samantha Brown, host of PBS's "Places To Love", was too generous when she wrote a blurb for my new travel memoir, Just One Little Hitch: "I've long enjoyed Mark Orwoll's travel writing, and was delighted to discover the genesis of his storytelling in this hilarious and revealing memoir. So fun!"
Then and now--when I was in my early 20s, hitching through Europe and Morocco, and now, as an old geezer. My memoir about those hippie days on the highway is "Just One Little Hitch," available on Amazon in paperback and ebook.
November 13, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Then and now--when I was in my early 20s, hitching through Europe and Morocco, and now, as an old geezer. My memoir about those hippie days on the highway is "Just One Little Hitch," available on Amazon in paperback and ebook.
The English didn't have Deadheads in the 1970s. They had the Wallies. What? You don't know the Wallies? Well, I was dragooned by them into building a stage at Stonehenge. They dosed me on acid. I ended up sleeping under the stage while the god-awful LSD Band played into the early morning hours.
The Wallies - Just One Little Hitch
A dog went missing at the Glastonbury Music Festival in 1973. The owner walked through the (stoned, wasted, psychedelicized) crowd shouting out his pup's name in hopes of finding him: "Wally! Wally! W...
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November 13, 2024 at 4:02 PM
The English didn't have Deadheads in the 1970s. They had the Wallies. What? You don't know the Wallies? Well, I was dragooned by them into building a stage at Stonehenge. They dosed me on acid. I ended up sleeping under the stage while the god-awful LSD Band played into the early morning hours.
David Farley, author of the wonderful "An Irreverent Curiosity," wrote: “With a sprinkling of the humor of David Sedaris, the storytelling wit of Bill Bryson, and an ounce of Anthony Bourdain’s snark, Mark Orwoll’s Just One Little Hitch is a fun, hard-to-put-down voyage through bohemian Europe."
Just One Little Hitch: The Book - Just One Little Hitch
“I’m trusting you to keep your mouth shut about this,” writes author Mark Orwoll, immediately taking the reader into his confidence—and for good reason. Much of the tale that follows reflects a charmi...
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November 13, 2024 at 4:00 PM
David Farley, author of the wonderful "An Irreverent Curiosity," wrote: “With a sprinkling of the humor of David Sedaris, the storytelling wit of Bill Bryson, and an ounce of Anthony Bourdain’s snark, Mark Orwoll’s Just One Little Hitch is a fun, hard-to-put-down voyage through bohemian Europe."
Here's the video trailer for my new travel memoir, "Just One Little Hitch" (Nov. 15, 2024), available on Amazon as an e-book or print copy. (Scroll down.) justonelittlehitch.com?page_id=834
The Trailer - Just One Little Hitch
Enjoy the book trailer—two minutes that will take you back to another place and time...
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November 13, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Here's the video trailer for my new travel memoir, "Just One Little Hitch" (Nov. 15, 2024), available on Amazon as an e-book or print copy. (Scroll down.) justonelittlehitch.com?page_id=834
My travel memoir, "Just One Little Hitch," will be published on November 15. More details to come, but for now, here's the cover.
November 13, 2024 at 3:45 PM
My travel memoir, "Just One Little Hitch," will be published on November 15. More details to come, but for now, here's the cover.
Old Mombasa made me feel like a character out of Maugham of Conrad.
November 13, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Old Mombasa made me feel like a character out of Maugham of Conrad.
Zanzibar! How the hell did I ever end up here?!
November 13, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Zanzibar! How the hell did I ever end up here?!