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To all the ladies out there who, like me, are trying desperatly to quell the wonderlust bubbling underneath their surface, i recommend a book worth getting your hands on.

'Women Travel' is part of the Rough Guides 'Specials' series and consists of more than 60 firsthand accounts of women travelling in all sorts of countries across the globe.

Now this may sound like some kind of advert or whatever but I promise you, from someone who cant sit for more than a minute without drifting into dream-like fantasies about her forthcoming RTW, this book is a true life-saver.

Not only did it save me from the depths of despair when i realised that no matter how much dreaming and doodling i did, the pace of time remains the same and it would be another few months before i was off, but it also gave me a beautiful insight into the way women write about such extrordinary things like world travel.

So, before i ramble off in my own delirious state, just want to say to all you girls waiting for your dreams to come to true (which believe me THEY DO!), read this book, or just two pages or three or four...and see just how it relaxes you into a content, and relatively PATIENT state of mind...most of all..

be prepared to be inspired.

K xxx

I know exactly how you feel! Only got 3 months til I'm off to Ecuador for a year but it seems to have been 3 months away forever!! Any welcome distractions are welcome....already bought one rough guide special so another won't do any harm!

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."

ah..equador sounds incredible..i'll be in mexico for a couple of months from november so depending on how it goes there i may venture further south.

what other rough guide special do you have...any good?

enjoy the book if you end up getting it!

Katy

Travelers' Tales also puts out some great titles for women travelers.

Indeed they do. Their newest one is entitled Sand In My Bra and is very, very funny.

You can read a sample chapter for free here.

seal press is great too - their adventura line.
for a funny anthology, I'd recommend The Unsavvy Traveler
http://www.sealpress.com

No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late by Ayun Halliday
http://www.ayunhalliday.com