Xcapade

Xcapade is a tale of lust, love, and loss for a young American man in his 20s traveling around the world in the 1980s searching for his soulmate. Central to the story is his trip to a paradise called Agia Galini on the island of Crete where love develops with a beautiful 19-year-old Canadian girl. A few weeks later the love grows in Rome during her visit to the Eternal City. Then before his planned visit to Verona to see her, Romeo is jilted by Juliet when the girl takes off with an Italian guy to Sicily. He thinks that he will never see her again but instead the last line in her rejection letter that predicts that their paths would cross again would become a true prophesy. His often-hilarious search for a soulmate during the next five years brings him to various locations around the world including the UK, Ireland, Europe, Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Greece, Saudi Arabia, and various US cities. Although he thought his interaction with the Canadian girl was over and he had no interest in seeing her again, he begins to encounter her in various unlikely places. These encounters would ultimately play a part in his quest to find his soulmate. The title of the book, Xcapade, is a shortening of the term Sexcapade. The Cambridge Dictionary defines SEXCAPADE as “A sexual experience that involves some risk or excitement.” I think that term sums up this travel adventure in search of a soulmate.