Women's Travel Reflects Spiritual Adventure - New Book Provides Insight to Travel and Spirituality

Women travelers are hot. According to www.womentraveltips.com, women make 70 percent of all travel decisions, and 75 percent of those who take nature, adventure, or cultural trips are women. But, whether its a business trip to New York or a solo pilgrimage on the El Camino de Santiago, traveling gives a woman an opportunity to discover more about herself, grow spiritually, and unpack the adventure within.

(PRWEB) June 23, 2005 -- Women travelers are hot. According to www.womentraveltips.com, women make 70 percent of all travel decisions, and 75 percent of those who take nature, adventure, or cultural trips are women. But, whether its a business trip to New York or a solo pilgrimage on the El Camino de Santiago, traveling gives a woman an opportunity to discover more about herself, grow spiritually, and unpack the adventure within.

Author and journalist Marlee LeDai says women travelers are seeking personal epiphanies" in her new release, Go Girl: Finding Adventure Wherever Your Travels Lead (Revell, 2005). LeDai, who has traveled extensively as well as lived and worked overseas in countries such as Israel, Denmark, England, and Switzerland, encourages women to drop their pretensions," step out in confidence, and venture across the world or across the street in search of adventure.

Travel is a mirror that reveals to you the best things about yourself," writes LeDai.Redefining your identity as you travel is absolutely life affirming, and one of adventures best rewards."

Go Girl readers will walk away with more than just a list of the most luxurious hotels in Europe or the best places to eat in Boise. Theyll learn:

- How to discover the adventure within
- The intimate connection between travel and spirituality
- What travel can teach them about themselves
- How travel can lead to personal and spiritual epiphanies
- How to make a dream trip a reality, no matter the obstacle
- How to plan a girlfriend getaway
- How to make traveling with children an adventure
- How to create a sketchbook journal as a timeless memoir
- Stories of modern-day women pilgrims who experienced epiphanies backpacking in Nepal, caring for children at an orphanage in Liberia, trekking the El Camino de Santiago, driving cross-country on a motorcycle, camping yearly on the beach in Baja, working with the poor in Latin America, photographing a medical mission to Vietnam, and participating in a humanitarian trip to Chernobyl.
- Candid stories from the author about how her many travel experiences, including living and working overseas, have changed her.

The one who travels-across town or across the country-will see clearly what others dont even notice," writes LeDai. Isnt this the heart of pilgrimage and spiritual adventure? It is to find a way beyond the non-seeing and not-feeling that dehumanizes the world."

Throughout the book, LeDai includes sidebars featuring multiple tips for venturing out including suggested packing lists, advice on water consumption, flight considerations, uses for duct tape while traveling, journaling suggestions, no-cost souvenir ideas, and tips for traveling on a tight budget.

Marlee LeDais love of family, adventure, and womens culture characterizes her life. With an eye on stories that offer healing and inspiration, LeDai has lived and worked in a variety of countries including Israel, Denmark, and England as well as at Francis and Edith Schaefers LAbri community in the Swiss Alps. As a journalist, she has traveled widely in Israel (between the Munich massacre and the Yom Kippur War); behind the Iron Curtain (during the Cold War); through Turkeys religious sites; and along Normandys D-Day trail, interviewing both locals and American veterans for the anniversary celebration. A former editor and columnist for the womens magazine, Virtue, and a contributing editor to Aspire magazine, LeDai has authored more than 25 books, including her 2004 release, Living Spaces (Revell), published more than 150 magazine and Web articles, and contributed as an editor and writer to several other works.

Book Information: Go Girl: Finding Adventure Wherever Your Travels Lead, Revell, softcover, $12.99, ISBN: 0-8007-5971-0.

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