CORY MORTENSEN
Bestselling Travel Memoirist • Speaker • Photographer
From cycling across continents to international travel to building and selling a company - these are stories from the road between.
Books That Came From the Road
Unmapped journeys - Restless exploration - Stories that move
The Buddha and the Bee
Biking Through America's Forgotten Roadways on an Accidental Journey of Discovery
UNLOST
Roaming Through South America on a Spontaneous Journey
Embracing Bewilderment
A Reluctant Entrepreneur's Journey - an Unconventional European Summer Twisting into a Mind-Bending Excursion Through Southeast Asia
What People Are Saying
"At times, The Buddha and the Bee feels like what would happen if Jeff Spicoli, Sean Penn's iconic anti-hero from Fast Times at Ridgemont High had taken up biking and set his sights on San Francisco. Dude.
​The Buddha and the Bee sort of turns the idea of the inspirational memoir upside down, a few obscenities here and there joined at the hip by an occasional joint and near daily rural roadside Chinese dinners and overnight stays in forgotten America's roadside motels."
Devon Street Review
"Reading Cory Mortensen's book is like talking with a friend who tells you his anecdotes. His narrative is relaxed and fun. He knows how to connect his stories with explanations of historical facts. He shares the culture he is acquiring and shows you his ability to solve problems with astuteness. I admire his courage to travel into unknown territories."
Readers' Favorite Review
"Cory Mortensen is an adventurous traveler, and in this book he starts in Iceland for his jaunt through 13 different European countries. Then he heads to Asia, where he travels back and forth among eight different countries before returning to the U.S. “I hope this book guides in some way but this is not a guide book,” he writes by way of introduction."
Blueink Review