Rita takes a trip to Mexico to find herself, and essentially, never comes back. The year is 1986 and Rita Gelman and her husband are on the cusp of divorce, just as her last child leaves for college. I enjoyed the book more after switching to the actual written format, which I would recommend. I started this one out on audio, read by the author, but I found her voice somewhat annoying for some reason. Her very outgoing, and occasionally pushy, personality, as well as frequent bouts of "good luck" also worked to her benefit in order to allow her some experiences that a typical traveler probably wouldn't have. in order to visit family) without an ongoing income (though she was earning somewhat regularly on royalties from previously-published children's books). She did enjoy the luxury of coming from a previous well-to-do lifestyle, or at least one comfortable enough to allow her to travel for many years (including back & forth to the U.S. Unlike many other travel memoirs, in most of her travel locations, the author really did make an effort to become part of the community & culture of the area. This was a fairly enjoyable travel memoir. She ventures off, alone, with the goal of traveling and immersing herself fully into the cultures & languages of several different locations throughout the world, including remote and not-so-remote locations in Mexico, Guatemala, Israel, the Galapagos Islands, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Thailand. Rita Golden Gelman, on the cusp of a divorce from her husband in 1986, decides to pursue her unfulfilled dreams of world travel.
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