This week’s Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 contributor has written a memoir about stripping 
and a memoir about wanderlust: Elisabeth Eaves. Bare: The Naked Truth About Stripping was declared “a first-rate, first-person work of social anthropology” by the Washington Post, while Wanderlust is due out with Seal Press next spring. Born in Vancouver, she currently lives in New York City.
What is “home” for you? Is it a particular place or person or thing?
Wherever I can get fresh basil and some wi-fi.
When did you first hit the road? How did it go?
When I was 18 I went to Spain for the summer to work as a nanny in a little beach town called Moraira. That was my first big solo trip abroad. My job was basically to take the two kids to the beach every morning, and then to the pool in the afternoon. At night I went out to the discotecas and rode around with a friend on a motorcycle. My Spanish got much better and I got a great tan, but I felt hemmed in being stuck in the same place all the time. At the end of the summer I didn’t want to go back to college, I wanted to get on a train and travel. Read the rest of this entry »
