Doubt

Why did I doubt that I could go on a trip and write a book? People do that all the time, right?

42 Somewhere in London

In my twenties, when I’d had quite enough of education, thank-you-very-much, and imagined that there was a lot worth seeing outside of California, an older friend told me about her idea to go on a trip of biblical length.

She took off for down under, touring Australia for 40 days and 40 nights for her 40th. I thought that was pretty cool. Secretly I was thinking, but what...