Preventing malaria and dengue fever isn’t hard. When it’s time to close the book and open the door, I can embrace the adventures of my choice. I don’t have to worry about mosquitos choosing an adventure for me.
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WanderLit Read: Magic Carpet Seduction: Travel Tales off the Beaten Path
It’s that last chapter, “Paradox of the Hermit” that Lisa reveals what she has been showing us all along about being a fully integrated person. You can confront the physical challenges and logistical realities of travel while still being emotionally in true to yourself and what you want out of your own experiences and relationships. Most of all, you can do this as a spiritual being in tune with the energies and magic around you all the time.
WanderLit Weekend Read: Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven
Susan Gilman’s Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven explores one of the real dangers of traveling off the grid in an unfamiliar culture. Pickpockets? Exploitive locals? Terrorists? Kidnappers? Price gouging? Nothing like that. The real danger is within ourselves. The stress, disorientation, and culture shock of sudden immersion.