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Three books to help you quench your
wanderlust
How Not to Travel the World: Adventures of a Disaster-Prone Backpacker by Lauren Juliff
Anxiety-ridden travel blogger Lauren Juliff sets out on a mission to travel the world in search of some much needed healing. An eating disorder and a recent break up push her to take on a task that she herself does not believe she can truly accomplish. Determined, she goes against her family, friends and her own discouragement and begins her year of travel. The book follows Lauren’s experiences, not limited to her getting scammed, eating a cockroach and even maybe falling in love. The novel is summarized as being “about following your dreams, no matter how many curveballs life throws at you. It’s about learning to get out of your comfort zone, finding the humor in messed up situations, and falling in love with life on the road.”
Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents by Elisabeth Eaves
Follow 15 years of adventure as Elisabeth Eaves travels the entire world and expresses her unconditional love for each and every place she visited. She crosses through five continents where she encounters different people and cultures all while discovering herself. Eaves goes through several relationships with guys ranging from an Australian tour guide to her high school sweetheart. Described as “more than just a chronological conquest of men and countries” and “sheds light on a growing culture of young women who have the freedom and inclination to define their own, increasingly global, lifestyles, unfettered by traditional roles and conventions of past generations of women.”
Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat by Chris Stewart
One summer, Chris Stewart decides to do something he has never done before. He had been the drummer for the band Genesis, a sheep sheerer and other eclectic jobs but he’d never sailed a boat. Stewart spends a summer on the Greek islands where he learns to sail, but not without obstacles. He sets the boat on fire not once, but several times and accidentally rams it right into the docks. Regardless of his mishaps, he finds that he loves sailing and decides to join a crew