One for the Road: Change Your Life Through Travel

Today’s featured book is one I briefly mentioned last month. This one is meant to inspire — Change Your Life Through Travel is a collection of tales and tips that could help to make your life fuller through travel, or at least shape the way you think about your travel experiences in relation to the rest of your life.

Author and award-winning television producer Jillian Robinson encourages readers to embrace travel in their lives, pointing to examples of how great writers did the same. She weaves messages about how to make travel meaningful with passages of classic writing by Isak Dinesen, Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, Edward Abbey and Henry Miller. Her message is that travel can be the catalyst for any of us, just like it was for these early adventurers. She follows in their footsteps, traveling to places like Cuba, Africa and Greece.

Jillian’s website contains lots of details about the book and chapter excerpts as well. If you are in the San Francisco area, be sure to stop by Book Passage tomorrow, where Robinson will be appearing at 7 pm.