• we created The Bookening— A Reading Resolution Revolution. A New Year’s Resolution to replace all those silly ones, like working out, eating right, sleeping eight hours, and being courteous to strangers. Okay, probably a good idea to still be courteous.

But before you bolt a turbo onto your engine, let’s get it tuned up, take it for a few runs, blow out the noise… Then circle back—so you can orchestrate your movements like a moonwalker dancing to reggae

• The Challenge: Simply, read the Palm Tree Express — A Trip to the Never-Never. Write a review, good or bad, just keep it real, and then you will receive your choice of A Beach Bum’s Guide to Living Incognito or Changing Lanes for free.
• The Benefits: Along with a much deeper appreciation of a tropical paradise, you will be reacquainted with thinking for yourself. Hell, if you don’t like Palm Tree Express, let us know full throttle. We are not some sort of mind control cult or celebrity with a grossly overinflated ego that climbs up on their digital soapbox and screams out their demands of what you should think. We are grown-ups here—grown-ups in board shorts and flip-flops.

By Perry Stone | Smoking Turtle ePress
Getting lost is a nightmare, unless that was your plan.— DISAPPEAR IN STYLE
AVAILABLE January 5th, 2026

The Beach Bum’s Guide to Living Incognito is your how-to for dropping off the radar without dropping off the map. Want to ditch the 9-to-5 grind, disappear from the algorithm, and still live a life of sand, surf, and sin? This book lays it all out — from hacking your lifestyle to playing invisible in plain sight.

You’ll learn how to blend in, live cheap, stay free, and find the magic in being nobody — all while building a life that actually feels like yours. No filters, no spreadsheets, no “boss energy.” Just you, the tropics, and a plan that actually works.

In a world increasingly dominated by digital surveillance and interconnectedness, the allure of disappearing—of truly living incognito—has never been stronger. Whether you’re looking to escape the political climate, societal pressures, or the looming threat of digital IDs that will track your every move, this guide will provide practical advice and strategies to live incognito. This isn’t just fantasy; it’s a roadmap to freedom.

Getting lost is a nightmare, unless that was your plan.

By Perry Stone | Smoking Turtle ePress

📘 Palm Tree Express + Changing Lanes
      (Premium Edition eBooks)

An exclusive digital GIFT bundle featuring two fearless, genre-smashing works by Perry Stone.

Palm Tree Express (Premium Edition) is the main event — a vivid, full-resolution narrative charged with grit, humor, and tropical surrealism.

Changing Lanes is the raw companion memoir — a story of obsession, isolation, and endurance, written on the edge of the road and the self.

🎁 A perfect gift for readers who crave adventure, voice, and authenticity — especially fans of Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, and modern cinematic storytelling that doesn’t play by the rules.
🚫 Not recommended for children or pretentious types.

Changing Lanes is a sneak peek inside a writer’s workbook.
I once read Ernest Hemingway’s last book, True at First Light, while riding my bicycle across the Australian Outback. Not when I was resting, but when I was pedaling.

I would read both sides of a page, then tear it from the book and release it into the Outback. I never considered it littering; it was more like spreading beautiful magic over the limestone.

Changing Lanes is a somewhat eclectic collection of stories about a masochistic pursuit of distance behind the bars of a bicycle and the tales I read in the wind, sights, sun, and motion.

There is some very adult behavior in this collection, but it is more like seasoning than the main course. After you read these “departures from normality,” you will never think of the lone cyclist encountered in the middle of nowhere in the same way ever again.

True at First Light inspired me, and I am paying it forward with Changing Lanes, hoping it just might inspire you to check in with your wild side.

By Perry Stone | Smoking Turtle ePress
171-page Landscape Tabloid PDF Digital Book

The Palm Tree Express is a myth wrapped in margarita madness — a full-throttle, bikini-laced, soul-bending crusade straight into the heart of tropical euphoria. Part pirate philosophy, gonzo adventure, and awakening — it’s not a story you read— it’s a call from the wild.

Memphis, our mystic, adventure-seeking rogue, explores the Mexican Caribbean — fueled by margaritas, bikinis, and a hidden pirate’s cache of lost medallions. Along the way, he redefines paradise so you don’t have to be rich (or dead) to get in.

Perhaps the world’s first “flip-flop philosophy,” it is wrapped in sunglasses, sunscreen, and crystal blue Caribbean waters. Sometimes completely absurd, but always entertaining. It is raw, real, and definitely unapologetic.

It teases you with the words of Kerouac, Márquez, Hemingway, Thompson, and other high priests of wanderlust. Manifested misadventures, secret codes on cocktail napkins, and over 40 pages of tropical imagery — it dares you to accept the life you want.

Answer the call—it just might change your life.

By Perry Stone | Smoking Turtle ePress
171-page Landscape Tabloid PDF Digital Book

The Palm Tree Express is a myth wrapped in margarita madness — a full-throttle, bikini-laced, soul-bending crusade straight into the heart of tropical euphoria. Part pirate philosophy, gonzo adventure, and awakening — it’s not a story you read— it’s a call from the wild.

Memphis, our mystic, adventure-seeking rogue, explores the Mexican Caribbean — fueled by margaritas, bikinis, and a hidden pirate’s cache of lost medallions. Along the way, he redefines paradise so you don’t have to be rich (or dead) to get in.

Perhaps the world’s first “flip-flop philosophy,” it is wrapped in sunglasses, sunscreen, and crystal blue Caribbean waters. Sometimes completely absurd, but always entertaining. It is raw, real, and definitely unapologetic.

It teases you with the words of Kerouac, Márquez, Hemingway, Thompson, and other high priests of wanderlust. Manifested misadventures, secret codes on cocktail napkins, and over 40 pages of tropical imagery — it dares you to accept the life you want.

Answer the call—it just might change your life.