Even when you give birth and your book comes out, you still have to take care of it. I haven't been able to find the time for another book yet, but I've written a few short travel stories which I'd like to put into my next book. After that I want to start writing novels. I'm thrilled that travel literature is now a genre unto its own. No longer are travel narratives lost among the travel guide books in book stores.
Travel literature explores the author's inner visions as well as the outer ones.
I read travel narratives as much as I can. My favorite travel books are about the solo traveler on a solo journey, a journey utterly devastating and utterly joyous all at once. I love islands and am fascinated with island cultures. I also just love the feeling of driving around new parts of North America, the rural parts and small towns, to see the land and how people are living on it. You experienced wonderful outcomes most of the time, yet sometimes things took a very dangerous, potentially life-threatening turn.