After the breakup of her marriage, Rita Golden Gelman sets off to explore the world.
Rita invades each culture she decides to inhabit, not making a short stop as tourist but a long visit as a new neighbor.
The premise isn’t new, certainly not to anyone who has read more than a few travelogues, but Gelman’s stand out amongst the crowd. Her honesty in the story and the obvious connection she develops with every person she meets and befriends enriches her tales of far-off lands and adventures.
Starting off moving to a remote Mexican village, where she knows nothing of the culture or the language, it’s obvious her courage allows her to explore the world to a depth few experience. Gelman talks her way into a Borneo camp studying orangutans, then spends eight years she lives in Indonesia, befriending a prince and discussing life.
My greatest desire upon finishing Gelman’s tales of her varied and exotic nomad life wasn’t to re-read her book, but to track her down and become her friend, learning how to shed my inhibitions and tackle the globe.
Reading’s the cheapest form of travel,
Megan
Tales of a Female Nomad
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Reading is TOTALLY the cheapest way to travel! I’ll have to check this out.
Sounds like a great read! Especially for a restless soul. Never in a billion years would I want anything to happen to my husband, but should I end up alone I hope I would do something adventurous like that.
It sounds good. Did you read “Eat, Pray, Love”. Is she less…..annoying than that author? (I feel bad saying that because maybe you LOVED “Eat, Pray, Love”, but I just thought the author was annoying and I couldn’t connect)
Ack – you’re exposing me for the lazy reader I am! Though I’ve now owned “Eat, Pray, Love” for over a year, I still haven’t gotten around to reading it. Something about it just doesn’t draw me in. So I really hope this book isn’t annoying, but I can’t speak to comparisons!
One day I’ll be ballsy enough to travel the world. And then I’ll write an awesome memoir too.
Now this is a book I have got to read! It looks like something right up my alley. Right where *I* want my life to go (not that I have much control over that at the moment…)
And I will join you in the lazy reader department for not reading “Eat Pray Love”… I think I’ve owned it since Oprah talked to the author (at least 2 years ago now) and I **STILL** have not read more than a chapter!!