This week’s Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 contributor has lived with nuns in Ethiopia, skied 
down volcanoes in New Zealand, gotten her heart broken in Taipei, and nearly been abandoned at the border in Honduras: Sara Bathum. She currently lives in Seattle with her husband and newborn son.
What is “home” for you? Is it a particular place or person or thing?
I’m a Seattleite. The Pacific Northwest is my home. Mount Rainier. Puget Sound. The giant trees of our coastal rainforest. My great grandmother arrived in Washington State in the late 1800s, shortly after it joined the Union, making my eight-month-old son a fifth-generation Washingtonian. There aren’t many of him around these parts. I’ve visited and lived in a fair number of other places in the world and I figure one of them will always be pulling at me, no matter where I am. As long as that’s happening and I can’t run out the door at every tug – especially now that it requires a diaper bag – I want to help my son develop the same strong sense of place.
When did you first hit the road? How did it go?
I crossed the equator for the first time when I was two years old. My father is an artist and Read the rest of this entry »
