Is it a memoir? Is it a travel book? Yes- it's both Growing up in the South during the great depression of the 1930's in a family with eight children I could not have imagined the life I'd grow up to live. My life has been filled with love, adventure and world travel but also great tragedy. As a small child I always wanted to see around the corner and took my first independent travel adventure at the aqge of 4. With an insatiable curiosity about the world I've managed to travel around it and visit more than fifty countries, much of the time with one or more of my three children in tow. Lucky in love I was married to and outlived two pilots named Chuck. The early death of my first husband and my younger son's life destroyed by schizophrenia seemed unbearable. I survived to enjoy many more years of love, adventure and happiness.