Travel Mania: Stories of Wanderlust
Since leaving home for Europe alone at age seventeen, Karen Gershowitz has traveled to more than ninety countries.

In pursuit of her passion for travel, she lost and gained friends and lovers and made a radical career change. She learned courage and risk taking and succeeded at things she didn’t think she could do: She climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. She visited remote areas of Indonesia on her own and became a translator, though only fluent in English. She conquered her fear of falling while on an elephant trek in Thailand. And she made friends across the globe, including a Japanese family who taught her to make sushi and a West Berliner who gave her an insider’s look at the city shortly after the wall came down.

An example that will inspire armchair travelers to become explorers and embolden everyone to be more courageous, Travel Mania is a vivid story of how one woman found her strength, power, and passion.

Travel is Karen’s addiction—and she doesn’t want treatment.
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Travel Mania: Stories of Wanderlust
Since leaving home for Europe alone at age seventeen, Karen Gershowitz has traveled to more than ninety countries.

In pursuit of her passion for travel, she lost and gained friends and lovers and made a radical career change. She learned courage and risk taking and succeeded at things she didn’t think she could do: She climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. She visited remote areas of Indonesia on her own and became a translator, though only fluent in English. She conquered her fear of falling while on an elephant trek in Thailand. And she made friends across the globe, including a Japanese family who taught her to make sushi and a West Berliner who gave her an insider’s look at the city shortly after the wall came down.

An example that will inspire armchair travelers to become explorers and embolden everyone to be more courageous, Travel Mania is a vivid story of how one woman found her strength, power, and passion.

Travel is Karen’s addiction—and she doesn’t want treatment.
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Travel Mania: Stories of Wanderlust

Travel Mania: Stories of Wanderlust

by Karen Gershowitz
Travel Mania: Stories of Wanderlust

Travel Mania: Stories of Wanderlust

by Karen Gershowitz

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Overview

Since leaving home for Europe alone at age seventeen, Karen Gershowitz has traveled to more than ninety countries.

In pursuit of her passion for travel, she lost and gained friends and lovers and made a radical career change. She learned courage and risk taking and succeeded at things she didn’t think she could do: She climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. She visited remote areas of Indonesia on her own and became a translator, though only fluent in English. She conquered her fear of falling while on an elephant trek in Thailand. And she made friends across the globe, including a Japanese family who taught her to make sushi and a West Berliner who gave her an insider’s look at the city shortly after the wall came down.

An example that will inspire armchair travelers to become explorers and embolden everyone to be more courageous, Travel Mania is a vivid story of how one woman found her strength, power, and passion.

Travel is Karen’s addiction—and she doesn’t want treatment.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781647421267
Publisher: She Writes Press
Publication date: 07/13/2021
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Karen Gershowitz grew up in Manhattan. During her long career as a marketing researcher, she crisscrossed the globe, conducting thousands of focus groups and interviews. While traveling, she used her interview skills in ordinary conversations to get strangers to open up and connect with her. Her work received an honorable mention at the 2018 Oregon Writer’s Conference. Travel Mania is her first book. She lives in New York, New York.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

The Inauspicious Beginnings: 1950s …5

Fueling the Passion: 1960s … 14

Leaving Home: 1970 … 20

Three Leaving London: 1971 …28

Capturing Japan: 1974 … 34

Will Work for Travel … 54

Finding True Love: 1978 … 62

On Ice: Alaska, 1981 … 70

Her Final Gift: Puerto Rico, 1982 … 79

Climbing: Tanzania, 1983 … 85

The Elephant Trek: Thailand, 1985 … 101

Marooned: Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, 1986 … 107

Durian: Malaysia, 1987 … 117

Winging It: Venezuela, 1989 … 119

Immersion: Indonesia, 1992 … 127

Expat Woes: 1992 … 152

Connections: Circumnavigating the Globe, 1996 … 156

Brigadoon Revisited: Crete, 1996-2006 … 170

The Translator: Singapore, 1997 … 176

Chaos in Cairo: Egypt, 1997 … 180

Traditions: South of France, 1998 … 187

Traveling in Fear: Brazil, 1998 … 195

Music under the Stars: Morocco, 1999 … 201

The Camel Trek: Morocco, 1999 … 207

Devils Tower: Wyoming,2001 … 213

Homegrown Art: Mississippi, 2001 … 217

The Wild West: 2001 … 223

NotZozobxa.: New Mexico, 2001 … 228

In Front of the Salad Bar: Tennessee, 2001 … 232

Russian Tales: 2004 … 238

Arrivals: Vietnam, 2004 … 249

The Boat Ride: Cambodia, 2004 … 256

At the Roof of the World: Tibet, 2007 … 261

India at Last: 2011 … 270

Berlin Revisited: Germany, 2011 … 285

In Transition: Burma, 2012 … 295

Yes, We Have No Bananas: Cuba, 2014 … 305

I've Seen the Future: Dubai and Abu Dhabi, 2017 … 317

Heat: Paris, 2018 … 332

Travel in the Time of COVID: London, 2020 … 341

Afterword … 351

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