Fans of Cheryl Strayed\'s Wild , Bill Bryson\'s A Walk in the Woods , and Elizabeth Gilbert\'s Eat, Pray, Love will enjoy author Toby Neal\'s road trip Travel Memoir of self-discovery as she and her husband journey through the National parks.
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An absorbing Travel narrative about defining and facing the limitations and opportunities of midlife.
Sometimes, a twelve-thousand-mile road trip is also a personal quest.
It could help me turn a corner into my new career as a writer, and my husband would enjoy a chance to photograph the natural wonders we saw.
A road trip traveling through the National Parks was just what I needed to rediscover the girl I\'d been.
I turned my head and saw a calendar on the wall: Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah beckoned me with its mysterious sandstone hoodoos.
I no longer recognized myself.
Though I didn\'t regret anything, flat on my back in the doctor\'s office on the cusp of my fiftieth birthday, my health was crumbling.
I sacrificed to get to where I was.
My story began in Freckled: a Memoir of Growing up Wild in Hawaii , but it continued after I married the man of my dreams, completed my education with multiple degrees, had a successful career, and raised two beautiful children.
I had a dream to live a "normal" life, and I attained it; but along the way, I lost myself.
Fans of Cheryl Strayed\'s Wild , Bill Bryson\'s A Walk in the Woods , and Elizabeth Gilbert\'s Eat, Pray, Love will enjoy author Toby Neal\'s road trip Travel Memoir of self-discovery as she and her husband journey through the National parks