The Long Road Home: One woman's true story of reclaiming her life along the legendary Camino de Santiago
Alesa and her twin were born in a small town in the wilds of Wyoming where antelope outnumber people 1,000 to 1. Soon a brother came along whom they could torment by dressing him up as a girl as often as possible. Despite their best efforts, he remains as manly as ever. When she wasn't torturing her brother, Alesa enjoyed writing every day, and in fact, she won a Young Author's Award in junior high. Somewhere along the road to adulthood, she gave up her dreams of writing creatively to pursue the corporate dream. After stepping into the telecommunications world where she wrote technical publications, the dot-com bubble burst and she jumped into another hot market: real estate. We all know what happened there! That is when she decided owning a coffee shop could be really awesome. And it was. For five years, she enjoyed being her own boss. Always brave, she is now fearlessly authoring her first book, raising a teenage daughter, and hoping to inspire others to live their dreams unashamedly and unafraid.