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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
medium-paced
adventurous
reflective
It took me a year to finish this book. Overall, I think this comes from the opinion of creating a narrative of how accessible and freeing travel is, but not always accurately describing the risks and fears that comes with these adventures. I solo traveled for many years, and found this narrative to be slightly too edited. Really wish I would have connected more, however as a gay woman I think I may be slightly biased.
As someone spending her first two years of adulthood prioritizing travel and new experiences to building my career, I found many aspects of this memoir especially poignant. I didn’t care for some of her commentary on different cultures & level of detail for some of her wilder stories, but I did appreciate how captivating her voice is.
Wonderfully well-written account of a solo-traveler, something I've never had the courage to do. Her stories and descriptions have added a few places to my list of where to travel next. I laughed out loud, I teared up, and really enjoyed reading this book.
I truly enjoyed this memoir. However, it wasnt what I expected. It was more of a twisted, international story than full travel memoir. It dealt with mucho boys.
But it was hysterical and entertaining. And as someone who is delaying kids, so that my passport gets more stamps: It was very entertaining.
But it was hysterical and entertaining. And as someone who is delaying kids, so that my passport gets more stamps: It was very entertaining.
Fun, entertaining read! A great book to get out of a slump and perfect for this life stage. Is it the most intelligent read, totally not, but very fun none the less!
one thing about me is i love a travel memoir. parts of the book were tone deaf and very “this author is clearly white and she should not be saying that” which definitely tainted the read but overall it was a decent book.
To the women who thought they’d be in their childhood relationship for the rest of their lives, but now live for the days of freedom, travel, making new friends and doing all the things you love - this book’s for you.
“…life is almost never about choosing between one thing you really want and another thing you don’t want at all. If you’re lucky, and healthy, life is an endless series of choosing between two things you want almost equally. And you have to evaluate and determine which awesome thing you want infinitesimally more, and then give up that other awesome thing you want almost exactly as much. You have to trade awesome for awesome. Everyone I know, no matter what they chose, was at least A LITTLE in mourning for that other thing.”
“But the most romantic day I had in Bariloche was a day I spent alone.”
“I had learned I was brave. But, most important, I felt just as free and alive and sure of where I was and what I was doing as I had on that car trip, lost in the middle of the country with my first boyfriend. And I was feeling that way all by myself. And that made me feel as unambivalent about myself as I had been about my first love. I had no idea where I was going, but eventually, I ended up back at the road, and found a bus back to town, and spent a couple more days in Diego’s bed that were sexy and warm but weren’t nearly as fulfilling or romantic as that unlonely walk alone.”
“When we are old we will smile about these times we have together when we were young.”
“If there is anything more ridiculously sexy than a young, blue-eyed Brazilian surfer who knows how to samba, I just don’t know what it is.”
“…life is almost never about choosing between one thing you really want and another thing you don’t want at all. If you’re lucky, and healthy, life is an endless series of choosing between two things you want almost equally. And you have to evaluate and determine which awesome thing you want infinitesimally more, and then give up that other awesome thing you want almost exactly as much. You have to trade awesome for awesome. Everyone I know, no matter what they chose, was at least A LITTLE in mourning for that other thing.”
“But the most romantic day I had in Bariloche was a day I spent alone.”
“I had learned I was brave. But, most important, I felt just as free and alive and sure of where I was and what I was doing as I had on that car trip, lost in the middle of the country with my first boyfriend. And I was feeling that way all by myself. And that made me feel as unambivalent about myself as I had been about my first love. I had no idea where I was going, but eventually, I ended up back at the road, and found a bus back to town, and spent a couple more days in Diego’s bed that were sexy and warm but weren’t nearly as fulfilling or romantic as that unlonely walk alone.”
“When we are old we will smile about these times we have together when we were young.”
“If there is anything more ridiculously sexy than a young, blue-eyed Brazilian surfer who knows how to samba, I just don’t know what it is.”