My Journal: A True, Simple, Real-Life Backpacking Adventure, Europe: 2 Months, 15 Countries, October - December 1997
Book Details
Author(s)Heather Marie Wessel
ISBN / ASINB008TAN89S
ISBN-13978B008TAN899
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
At the request of my grandmother, I started this journal when I began my backpacking adventure through Europe in October 1997. The writing is simple, real and experience-driven. This story-driven journal details the often humorous encounters in daily life experiences in a foreign country.
Throughout this journey I learned great value in navigating new countries, languages, currencies, new friends as well as in testing the relationship of my original backpacking friend who initiated this trip. This journal demonstrates the excitement, the freedom and also the challenges associated with backpacking--physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and financially.
This journal contains 200+ photos (some grainy, some great) of architecture, people, situations, and experiences as powerful as the photos of the last 800 meters of the Berlin Wall or as insubstantial as a banana sticker receipt.
Those who are looking to go backpacking through Europe or any other continent will find tremendous value in the daily resulting relationship dynamics or even some of the small challenges and obstacles which feel larger than life when in a foreign country.
Those who have backpacked may find substantial humor in the stories which easily relate to any backpacker.
Those who never choose to backpack may live vicariously through the humor and adventure of these stories, achieving a real-life perspective on the experience.
And for those who are simply curious about the many photographs of Europe during 1997, this journal might be quite interesting to those who want a glimpse into images from the past such as the last standing meters of the Berlin Wall, shops in Amsterdam or daily life in Paris.
Throughout this journey I learned great value in navigating new countries, languages, currencies, new friends as well as in testing the relationship of my original backpacking friend who initiated this trip. This journal demonstrates the excitement, the freedom and also the challenges associated with backpacking--physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and financially.
This journal contains 200+ photos (some grainy, some great) of architecture, people, situations, and experiences as powerful as the photos of the last 800 meters of the Berlin Wall or as insubstantial as a banana sticker receipt.
Those who are looking to go backpacking through Europe or any other continent will find tremendous value in the daily resulting relationship dynamics or even some of the small challenges and obstacles which feel larger than life when in a foreign country.
Those who have backpacked may find substantial humor in the stories which easily relate to any backpacker.
Those who never choose to backpack may live vicariously through the humor and adventure of these stories, achieving a real-life perspective on the experience.
And for those who are simply curious about the many photographs of Europe during 1997, this journal might be quite interesting to those who want a glimpse into images from the past such as the last standing meters of the Berlin Wall, shops in Amsterdam or daily life in Paris.
