Is there adventure in your soul?
Is there adventure but maybe it's been tempered by the notion that you are too old to wander around the planet hefting not much more than a backpack and a large dose of optimism? If so, take heart. This book will be a most important read for you.. It's filled with tips, inspiration, stories and lots of excellent reasons to follow your senior citizen heart into the great unknown. You'll find lots of support and understanding if your "unknown" happens to be just a tad outside the comfort zone typically accept in your circle of retired friends.
If you have dreamed of travel and due to advanced years, finally have the time and freedom to go, you're almost certain to have some fun between these covers. Maybe you fit the description of a would be vagabond, but believe the cost of extended travel transforms your hot fantasies to see the world into a mere pipe dream.
You just might find enlightenment between these covers and discover some schemes that could, with a bit of boldness, enable you to fly away into your dreams.
This book will NOT send you off to tour 13 countries in 30 days with backpack, tent, cookware and sleeping bag. It is intended to keep you sleeping in clean beds, blending into wonderful cultures, avoiding highway robbers and maybe seeing only two or three countries in a whole year. It does not promote "seeing" other lands as much as it promotes "being" in amazing foreign countries where you can really absorb the culture and color of at least some of the rest of the planet from an up close and personal perspective.
So kick back in your easy chair with your favorite beverage in hand, put your feet up and enjoy the ride. You may put this book down after the unusual trip is finished, sigh and still be singing to yourself the old familiar refrain, "Well, I can dream, can't I?"
On the other hand, you might say instead, "Where can I get a quick passport and a cheap backpack? I'll be leaving Now."
Well, if not now, when?
REVIEW FROM AMAZON BY JANE Q. CITIZEN:
"I picked up Linda's book in Panajachel, Guatemala a few days before the end of my month-long trip to scout potential retirement places there and in Nicaragua. I spent the rest of the afternoon sitting on the patio that looked out over Lake Atitlan reading the entire book.
"As a woman of a "certain age" whose finances had been destroyed by living through the first decade of the 21st century, I had already decided I wanted to retire in Central America. Get Packing supplied all the inspiration I needed at the moment to say, yes, this is absolutely the right decision for me.
"The clearest message of Linda's eminently readable book is, what are you waiting for? Life is not a dress rehearsal, as the old saying goes. None of us are getting any younger, so what are we waiting for?
"During my trip I met plenty of fascinating people -- expats, tourists and locals -- and experienced a part of the world that is stunningly beautiful, friendly to visitors and offers a great deal to those who take the time to seek it out.
"I'm excited about moving in 2014. If you need a pep talk to move, change, or travel, pick up this book. It may just be the kick in the pants you need!"
If you have dreamed of travel and due to advanced years, finally have the time and freedom to go, you're almost certain to have some fun between these covers. Maybe you fit the description of a would be vagabond, but believe the cost of extended travel transforms your hot fantasies to see the world into a mere pipe dream.
You just might find enlightenment between these covers and discover some schemes that could, with a bit of boldness, enable you to fly away into your dreams.
This book will NOT send you off to tour 13 countries in 30 days with backpack, tent, cookware and sleeping bag. It is intended to keep you sleeping in clean beds, blending into wonderful cultures, avoiding highway robbers and maybe seeing only two or three countries in a whole year. It does not promote "seeing" other lands as much as it promotes "being" in amazing foreign countries where you can really absorb the culture and color of at least some of the rest of the planet from an up close and personal perspective.
So kick back in your easy chair with your favorite beverage in hand, put your feet up and enjoy the ride. You may put this book down after the unusual trip is finished, sigh and still be singing to yourself the old familiar refrain, "Well, I can dream, can't I?"
On the other hand, you might say instead, "Where can I get a quick passport and a cheap backpack? I'll be leaving Now."
Well, if not now, when?
REVIEW FROM AMAZON BY JANE Q. CITIZEN:
"I picked up Linda's book in Panajachel, Guatemala a few days before the end of my month-long trip to scout potential retirement places there and in Nicaragua. I spent the rest of the afternoon sitting on the patio that looked out over Lake Atitlan reading the entire book.
"As a woman of a "certain age" whose finances had been destroyed by living through the first decade of the 21st century, I had already decided I wanted to retire in Central America. Get Packing supplied all the inspiration I needed at the moment to say, yes, this is absolutely the right decision for me.
"The clearest message of Linda's eminently readable book is, what are you waiting for? Life is not a dress rehearsal, as the old saying goes. None of us are getting any younger, so what are we waiting for?
"During my trip I met plenty of fascinating people -- expats, tourists and locals -- and experienced a part of the world that is stunningly beautiful, friendly to visitors and offers a great deal to those who take the time to seek it out.
"I'm excited about moving in 2014. If you need a pep talk to move, change, or travel, pick up this book. It may just be the kick in the pants you need!"
