My Life As A Mexican Pirate is the Naughty Nomad, Mark Zolo’s, second travel memoir. Similar books in the travel game genre include Roosh V’s Dead Bat in Paraguay, and Neil Skywalker’s Around the World in 80 Girls.
From reading his book, you can tell Zolo is an educated guy, plus a skilled writer. However, unlike some PhD academic, or worse, an outsourced corporate writer, he writes from real world experience. Mark explores many countries, some of which most travelers have probably never even heard about.
Contents
Naughty Nomad Book Background Info
You’ll get to know a few of his friends and wings along the pages of this memoir. For example, Gilly, who was somewhat reminiscent of my own shy teenage years:
“He drifted away from friends as a teenager, prioritizing academics over playing outside. Rather than attend house parties, he chose to bury his head in books at home. University and traveling Asia loosened him up a bit.”
Similarly, Barry is according to Mark, a typical nice guy …Paying for girls’ drinks, complimenting them, and being entertaining, but never making a move. Clear cases of nice guy syndrome. He explains to Barry that women want bad boys:
“Women open their legs to guys who brought them to the nearest dive bar and tried to fuck them in the toilet.”
And
“Stop putting pussy on a pedestal … girls don’t find that attractive”
My Life As A Mexican Pirate is also auto-biographical. Mark sheds some light on his background in Ireland. Doing odd jobs like bartending, freelancing as a graphic and web designer, and his Masters degree, which you wouldn’t necessarily expect of a rambunctious male travel blogger.
The book includes interesting anecdotes with background history of the places he visits (e.g. Ivory Coast’s war), which makes it even more compelling to read.
Game
Mark shares a few techniques in the book to his PUA fans, e.g. a fun technique to hook up:
Write your name, phone number, and doodles like hearts on tiny pieces of scrap paper. Then hand it out to random cute girls around you.
Read more about the exact technique plus picture examples, in his book.
Mark is also well-aware of the Danger Of The Friendzone. For example, he met a girl whom he had a friendly rather than sexual vibe with: Mark Zolo: “Sorry but I’ve been wanting to do something all night…”. Then he leans in for the kiss. But did she kiss him back? Read the book to find out.
Peacocking
Initially, I was thinking, C’mon Mark, this pirate stuff is simply a classical case of what Mystery used to call “peacocking”. But, then, a few chapters down the line, he does come clean, and admits that it definitely is a form of peacocking.
Throughout the book he expands upon peacocking. For example, he mentions how its always better peacocking with friends, as opposed to going out solo with a Mexican pirate sword and hat (in which case you might only get a few weird looks).
Thus he’s not claiming to invent something new, he’s simply making something ancient cool again. I’ve also done peacocking a few times with costumes at night, and had fun, but I’ve never thought about doing it all the time. For example, always dressing up as a Mexican pirate (at least while traveling). But I suspect he’s going to make a lot of readers think quite deeply. At the least, he’ll make you reconsider overdressing for nightclubs where most people go to get drunk or smashed anyway.
Examples of Naughty Nomad Peacocking Props
- Weaponry Toys (e.g. swords)
- Inflatable Red Chilli Pepper
- Silly Hats (e.g. Mexican sombreros)
- Hand Puppets
- Flashing Neon Jedi Dick Sticks
- In Accra (Ghana) they got colorful light-sabers.
- Inflatable banana in Beirut (Lebanon).
At some point, some of his crew wore Leprechaun outfits instead of pirate clothes. Of course Leprechaun’s are from Irish folklore. Thus you could adapt this to the indigenous clothing of your own country, e.g. in Germany they have those traditional Lederhosen pants, and in some parts of Africa, they wear animal skins in tribes.
In Hvar island (Croatia) he gives a tip to make better use of your peacocking utensils.
Find random hot girls and put your hats on their heads. This anchors them to you, makes them part of your gang, while creating envy in other girls. It’s also a screening tool to see which girls are fun, and which aren’t looking for anything.
Barry explains benefits of peacocking further: “It was an alter ego, I became a lot more confident”. Now girls chatted him up while he was dressed as a Mexican pirate, and he had a story to share.
Mark Zolo: War Zone Journalist
Towards the end of the book, I saw Mark as a war-zone journalist. He went into the war-zone (e.g. a bomb-blast in Somalia), towards trouble, instead of running away from it. This makes his stories more interesting, although some might say it also makes him more crazy.
He endangers himself by banging taxi girls in third world cities. While bringing smiles and orgasms to the girls who appreciates his white ass. But he doesn’t always get the best treatment in return. Still, that’s what you expect from the third world. However, he’s not only a regular war-zone journalist, but as a Mexican pirate, he’s also seems like a fun comedian.
As for me, life’s been crazy enough in South Africa, thus there’s no point to go to war-zones. At times, this place can feel like a war zone, itself. Moreover, I’m not into dating black women. In Mark’s case, since he was likely mostly surrounded by white girls in the first world city of Dublin (Ireland), I can imagine that he sees black girls as exotic.
For me it’s the opposite. While growing up I was surrounded by black girls in Africa most of the time. Now I love white girls, and sometimes Asians.
The same rush he feels exploring the wild side of Africa, is the rush I get whenever I see a first world country – where things work more efficiently and the infrastructure is more advanced.
My Life As a Mexican Pirate Is Not Politically Correct
Mark doesn’t simply give you official narratives, such as Obama and the mainstream media’s narrative about Syria. They wanted to overthrow Assad, even if it meant that Syria would simply become another Saudi Arabia with the “rebels” in control of the country.
But apparently, most Syrians were happy with Assad keeping peace and stability, among many different religious factions in Syria.
Around the Nigeria Chapter, I thought for a moment that Mark should sell the movie rights to his book. The Lagos section will make a really cool action sequence in a movie. But when I got to the Syrian chapter, then you realize that it’s maybe too Politically incorrect for the PC crowd of Hollywood.
What I didn’t like
Mark will probably admit that he’s had his fair share of degeneracy, as described in the pages of this book. Such as having sex with ugly black girls in slums. For example, the girl with the tail appendix in Liberia. The girls in Africa want bribes all the time from him. Predictable. Its low quality women. I’m convinced that in the first world, he sleeps with hot high-quality girls. But I found the West Africa section slightly disgusting.
If it was educated upmarket black girls, I wouldn’t mind. I’m not being racist. But he seemed like a bottom scraping fish at that point.
On the bright side, he’ll make you feel better about yourself, if you’ve ever had at least one of those experiences in your own dating life.
Who hasn’t, though?
Furthermore, the reader can at least appreciate his honesty.
How will this book help you?
This book can help to shake you out of your rigid lives. He’ll encourage you to be more adventurous, and rekindle your own love of traveling (especially off-the-beaten-track).
Apart from visiting crazy places, he also shows courage and daring behavior with girls. I do believe that this subconsciously may influence you as a reader, to also be more ballsy e.g. on dates. For example, if you read a normal travel memoir where the writer platonically befriended a hot girl (who was banging a few studs on the side), then you may also become a passive man. But Mark Zolo would make a move instead, and go for the make-out to see where it can lead.
Thus reading seduction books can positively influence your own behavior if you model the author’s behavior.
He is honest about the times he gets great results, and the factors that helped him. Not pushing game like a once-off cure all pill, but also admitting the value of simply bringing the fun with a few good friends. Which is something he’s an expert at.
This book is about Mark’s, as he may call it himself, “horn-dog” casual phase. Although nowadays the word is he’s in a relationship, and lives in Malta. In my own view, it’s good to go through the phase of first playing the field, before settling down (unless you found a wife in a different way). Do whatever works for you – as opposed to what works for other people.
My Life As A Mexican Pirate is a book of adventure, not self-improvement. It probably won’t make you a better man. That’s not the point of the book. I mean there’s constantly pot smoking, drinking and banging girls who try to extort money from him afterwards… However, there are other books you can buy if your goal is specifically self-development. But, especially if you’re single and want to be more adventurous, I’d rate this one of the best books out there for men.
Conclusion – Naughty Nomad Second Travel Memoir
I most enjoyed the second half of the book, e.g. Middle East, Somalia, a short European trip or two, and a few pages of background info on himself. By that point you get very used to his Irish lingo, and style of writing, which grows on you as you read the book.
If you’ve already read his first book (Not Your Typical Backpackers Story – price currently only $3), you’ll probably love the new book as well.
Who isn’t tired of mainstream travel writers? They’d write anything if it gives them more publicity (while remaining gender neutral and PC). Thus, My Life As A Mexican Pirate, is essential reading if you’re a single man into off-the-radar traveling in destinations such as West-Africa, Syria, Ethiopia, Oman and Somalia.
Even if you have no intention to visit specifically those countries, it’s also simply a fun lighthearted and very entertaining book for any travel game fan to read.
Thus, if you feel any of the above applies to you, grab a copy of Mark’s latest book on Amazon today. Click here to check the price.
Have you read Naughty Nomad – My Life As A Mexican Pirate, or his previous travel game memoir? What’s your thoughts on Mark’s latest book, or travel game memoirs in general? Post your comments and questions below!
Disclaimer: I wrote this book review after Mark Zolo provided a review copy around the end of December 2019. Still, as you can tell, my review is balanced, honest, with no need to sugarcoat since I’m a travel game fan myself. The official release date was 13 March 2020. Here’s a link to Mark’s website: The Naughty Nomad.