I was excited to travel in my imagination through the globe-trotting memoir of Kate Wills. After all, she is a freelance travel and features writer for Vogue, The Times, The Guardian, Elle and many more. I knew I was in for a treat of grand descriptions of her sight-seeing adventures, and her personal illuminating insights.Kate takes us on an interesting history lesson on the evolution of women travelers. The idea of traveling for fun was pioneered by the Romans. A holiday is derived from the Old English word, haligdaeg, meaning “holy day.”. The word adventure means “about to happen” which sums up what Kate loves best about being away from home. “There’s always an element of chance and risk.”At twenty-one she believed she found her “true north” soul-mate. He was the grounding force she came home to after a journey. Wills believed he was the reason she was able to travel so far and for so long because she felt his support back home.She proposed marriage at thirty-two to this good man, ignoring her hesitancy. After all, they’d been together for over a decade. The couple had the best wedding and a blissful honeymoon. But intuitively she knew they both had different pictures of what “the rest of our lives” looked like. One morning she didn’t love him anymore. They tried counseling. Nine months later they divorced. Her divorce journey of healing began with crying in the shower a lot, “Lather, rinse, re-weep.” It was hard for her to decipher what had gone wrong. At thirty-four, she felt devastatingly alone.Traveling alone isn’t scary for Kate. Fifty-five percent of solo travel in the UK is done by women. A single woman traveling is perceived as a sign of female wealth, independence, and freedom. Unraveling the history of so many unconventional, women who had traveled the world gave her confidence she could forge her own path too. Buckle up as you read her humorously, colorful twisting and turning travel escapades of chance and risk in healing. I promise you won’t need Dramamine. A big plus for her stupendous travel tips encouraging women to be “totally lost and absolutely free.” Untethering our minds from routines and habits gives us something new to chew on. It can also offer up some much-needed perspective. Upon finishing this delightful book, I was inspired to go to new places and see familiar places in a new way.