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    Open Road: A Midlife Memoir of Travel and the National Parks: Memoir Series
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    Open Road: A Midlife Memoir of Travel and the National Parks: Memoir Series

    By T W Neal

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    About this ebook

    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!

     

    I had a dream to live a "normal" life and I attained it; but along the way, I lost myself.

     

    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 sacrificed to get to where I was. 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 no longer recognized myself.

    I turned my head and saw a calendar on the wall: Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah beckoned me with its mysterious sandstone hoodoos.

    A road trip traveling through the National Parks was just what I needed to rediscover the girl I'd been; 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.

     

    Sometimes, a twelve-thousand-mile road trip is also a personal quest.

    An absorbing travel narrative about defining and facing the limitations and opportunities of midlife.An absorbing travel narrative about defining and facing the limitations and opportunities of midlife. —Kirkus Reviews

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNeal Enterprises Inc
    Release dateMar 11, 2021
    ISBN9780989688390
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