Believing that women can do anything they want to do, and at any age, Jay puts several traveling taboos to rest in her energetic and expressive book. Here's some insight she has for Women's Travelife readers. Such thinking is being eroded, but ever so slowly. Another reason women may fear to travel is simply a part of the general paranoia fed by hours of 'bad news' entertainment, coupled by America's isolation from foreign cultures. However, there are a lot of women traveling alone today, especially those over 50 years old.
People are good, kind, generous and interesting the world over.
This in no way denies that people do bad things the world over - both governments and individuals. But I believe we all want the same thing. I also want to go to see the fjords of Norway and to see more of the country of France. One sacrifice I make by not living in one place is that I must expend a great deal of conscious energy and time and money to maintain and deepen my relationships with friends and family. A happy 'sacrifice'.