Summer Reading for Travelers

I’m particularly overwhelmed with travel-related books right now. Seems my stack keeps growing and my reading time is not increasing at the same rate. Perhaps it has something to do with Seattle summers. Even though the days are SO long (it’s getting light out sometime in the four o’clock hour and is light until about 10pm), I spend more of that time out walking, gardening and socializing.

Here is what’s currently in my stack (in no particular order):

1) Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World (Rita Golden Gelman) – my current read
2) Into Hot Air: Mounting Mount Everest (Chris Elliott) – I thought I was standing in line at the Book Expo in NYC to have an author who had climbed Everest sign the book. It turns out it was Letterman comic Chris Elliott who wrote a farcical story about NOT climbing Everest. I got it signed anyway and am looking forward to some comedy.
3) Whatever You Do, Don’t Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide (Peter Allison)
4) Adventures with Purpose: Adventures from the Front Lines of Earth (Richard Bangs)
5) The Dowry Bride (Shobhan Bantwal)
6) Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story (Tony and Maureen Wheeler)
7) Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Elizabeth Gilbert)
8.) Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Suketu Mehta)
9) Invisible Lives (Anjali Banerjee)
10) Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who are Changing the World (Holly Morris)
11) Sold (Patricia McCormick)
12) The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddha (Stephen T. Asma)
13) Freedom in Exile: Autobiography of the Dalai Lama (His Holiness the Dalai Lama)

When someone figures out how to extend our days by a few hours, would you let me know? I’ll then have some time to get through all of these!

Happy Travels!