Let me back up a little. Well, maybe a lot, because thisbook actually started in 1987, when I divorced, gave every-thing away (no storage), and took off with a backpack to starta new life. My kids had left home, my husband was an ex,and it was finally “my time.” I no longer wanted to live in onetiny dot on the giant map of the world. I wanted to explore, toadventure, to connect with the diversity of life on earth. I wasready to live my dream