When someone first gave me this book I wasn’t all that excited about it. I had some preconceived notions given the basic premise: rich and affluent middle aged woman travels world after divorce, meh. Eventually though I started reading. We’ll first throw out the whole rich thing. While she and her husband were quite successful, after the divorce she took very little and was only able to preserve a traveling lifestyle by living in Third World countries where she could live significantly more cheaply. This author is also not traveling high class. She stays plenty of places that, if I’m being honest with myself, I probably wouldn’t.

I also found her writing style very interesting. It was both matter-of-fact and succinct while still also having a melodic narrative. I’m infinitely curious by certain little details she decided to include while other stretches of time were painted in broad strokes.

This is a really great book and I recommend it. It’s also pretty distinctly from the 90s. Some of her travel is post 2001, but she doesn’t dive into the changes and I would love to hear her take on the difference in world travel post 9/11.