I haven’t manage to publish the version of my manuscript finished in 1998. I tried to contact several publishers, but, as it would have been my first ever book, I would have to cover almost all costs myself that was unaffordable for me. As time went by someone helped me by finding a publishing agent for the English version, but she might have been a fake, as at last it has not been published. After many years’ patience I recalled the commission. Maybe publishing on my own expenses would not have cost much more than the sum she took from me.
The manuscript has been remade twice since. First I set out details about my trips and amended them here and there, as well as I attached to them black and white copies of photos taken on my trips. Thus a new manuscript has sprung to life that I called Canned Roaddust. I compiled it in both English and Hungarian. Alas, I went through the same road with its publishing once more, for this reason I gave up my intention to publish it as a book. At the second time I took out most of the details transferred to the travelogue. Although, as the last twelve years haven’t gone by completely without events, I decided recently that I try to put on paper also those happenings.
It is my hope that the Reader has found the original narrative interesting enough to be incited to read the following report too.
Budapest, 27 December 2010.
Omikomar Sefozi