Rudy's Rules for Travel: Life Lessons from Around the Globe
Most honeymoons, Mary knows, do not start this way. Lying outside on the sloping attic roof in Edinburgh, listening to the soft snores of her groom, she realizes that Rudy’s number one rule, “adapt," once again reigns.
Rudy’s Rules for Travel takes you across the twentieth-century globe with intrepid, frugal Rudy and his spouse Mary, a catastrophic thinker seeking comfort. Whether stalled in a Spanish car tunnel, stranded atop a runaway elephant, or held at rifle-point at a Soviet border, Rudy has a rule for every occasion—for example, “Relax, some kind stranger will appear.” Mary, meanwhile, has her deep breathing and her own commandment: “Expect the worst.”
The two are a picture of contrast. As Mary was being born, Rudy was a new American citizen flying US Air Force missions over his homeland, Germany. His father was a seaman, hers an accountant. And when this marriage of opposites goes traveling, their stories combine laugh-out-loud humor with poignant lessons from the odyssey of a World War II veteran. So start packing—you’ll want to join these two.
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Rudy's Rules for Travel: Life Lessons from Around the Globe
Most honeymoons, Mary knows, do not start this way. Lying outside on the sloping attic roof in Edinburgh, listening to the soft snores of her groom, she realizes that Rudy’s number one rule, “adapt," once again reigns.
Rudy’s Rules for Travel takes you across the twentieth-century globe with intrepid, frugal Rudy and his spouse Mary, a catastrophic thinker seeking comfort. Whether stalled in a Spanish car tunnel, stranded atop a runaway elephant, or held at rifle-point at a Soviet border, Rudy has a rule for every occasion—for example, “Relax, some kind stranger will appear.” Mary, meanwhile, has her deep breathing and her own commandment: “Expect the worst.”
The two are a picture of contrast. As Mary was being born, Rudy was a new American citizen flying US Air Force missions over his homeland, Germany. His father was a seaman, hers an accountant. And when this marriage of opposites goes traveling, their stories combine laugh-out-loud humor with poignant lessons from the odyssey of a World War II veteran. So start packing—you’ll want to join these two.
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Rudy's Rules for Travel: Life Lessons from Around the Globe

Rudy's Rules for Travel: Life Lessons from Around the Globe

by Mary K. Jensen
Rudy's Rules for Travel: Life Lessons from Around the Globe

Rudy's Rules for Travel: Life Lessons from Around the Globe

by Mary K. Jensen

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Most honeymoons, Mary knows, do not start this way. Lying outside on the sloping attic roof in Edinburgh, listening to the soft snores of her groom, she realizes that Rudy’s number one rule, “adapt," once again reigns.
Rudy’s Rules for Travel takes you across the twentieth-century globe with intrepid, frugal Rudy and his spouse Mary, a catastrophic thinker seeking comfort. Whether stalled in a Spanish car tunnel, stranded atop a runaway elephant, or held at rifle-point at a Soviet border, Rudy has a rule for every occasion—for example, “Relax, some kind stranger will appear.” Mary, meanwhile, has her deep breathing and her own commandment: “Expect the worst.”
The two are a picture of contrast. As Mary was being born, Rudy was a new American citizen flying US Air Force missions over his homeland, Germany. His father was a seaman, hers an accountant. And when this marriage of opposites goes traveling, their stories combine laugh-out-loud humor with poignant lessons from the odyssey of a World War II veteran. So start packing—you’ll want to join these two.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781631523229
Publisher: She Writes Press
Publication date: 04/10/2018
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 16.80(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Mary K. Jensen, PhD is a recovering grants writer. After retiring as Professor Emerita from California State University, Chico, she ventured into her attic and pulled out boxes of trip diaries—raw material for her memoir. Jensen earned her master’s degree at Loyola Marymount Universityand her doctorate at the University of Oregon, where she was an analyst and author for the federal research clearinghouse ERIC. With experience in teaching, school psychology, administration, and teacher preparation, she has been a popular writer and conference speaker, skilled in translating research findings to school practice. She is a survivor—of cancer twice, and of decades of travel with her irrepressible spouse. She lives in northern California where she relishes her writing group, book clubs, poetry group, walks and friendships. Visit her at www.marykjensen.com.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Edinburgh, Scotland, 1980 1

Rudy's Rules For Travel 9

Chapter 2 Mexico City, Mexico, 1976 11

Chapter 3 Oaxaca, Mexico, 1979 17

Chapter 4 Puerto Escondido, Mexico, 1979 21

Chapter 5 West Germany, 1980 28

Chapter 6 Italy, 1981 40

Chapter 7 Yugoslavia, 1981 48

Chapter 8 Spain And Portugal, 1982 53

Chapter 9 Czechoslovakia, 1983 59

Chapter 10 Berlin, East Germany, 1983 75

Chapter 11 Hungary, 1983 80

Chapter 12 Russia, 1983 87

Chapter 13 Finland, 1983 104

Chapter 14 Egypt, 1984 111

Chapter 15 New Zealand, 1988 120

Chapter 16 Thailand, 1990 126

Chapter 17 Bali, Indonesia, 1991 140

Chapter 18 Tibenham, Norwich, England, 1992 153

Chapter 19 France, 1994 164

Chapter 20 Cruises Dipping Down Into The Bucket 166

Chapter 21 And Other Transitions 180

Chapter 22 South Dakota, 2013 192

Mary's Rules For Travel 201

Epilogue: Rudy's Rule 14 203

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