Inspiring and terrifying--a recently divorced middle-aged woman tells her true story of giving up everything to travel around the world for years, living on the kindness of others (and royalties from her writing). Inspiring, because she shows that you don't have to be rich or athletic or a man or have the top-of-the-line backpacking equipment to enjoy the best places on earth. Terrifying, because as my study abroad program did a few years before this, it made me unsatisfied with life-as-usual, to want to just pick up and go, leaving everything behind. This book made me terribly jealous.