When not riding the rails through Burma, getting lost in Laos, hitchhiking to Honduras, or bribing her way into Bali, this week’s Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 contributor is spinning exotic tales and clever copy from Northern California: Laurie Weed. Visit her website at www.laurieweed.com.
When did you first hit the road? How did it go?
In 2002, I took a year off to backpack through Southeast Asia and Australia. At that point, I’d never been out of the U.S. for more than a few weeks’ vacation. I was such a late bloomer that I didn’t even own a passport until I was 29. So, I assumed I would go out and have that “travel experience,” then return to San Francisco and pick up where I’d left off. Instead—inevitably—traveling changed the way I viewed the world, and the way I wanted to live in it. When I finally came back, I lasted all of six months before it was time to hit the road again.
What is ‘home’ for you? Is it a particular place or person or thing?
Home is a fluid concept for me. The San Francisco Bay Area is a longtime base camp, where I have an amazing network of friends that seem to tolerate my constant Read the rest of this entry »
