On Travel
Nearly everyone loves to travel, and this book will take the reader around the world and back again. We’re looking for stories about every mode of travel, from car to train, to boat to plane, to motorcycle to motor home, and about both domestic and international destinations.
Tentative Chapter Titles:
- Culture Shocks: Matters of Perspective
- Close Encounters: Real and Surreal
- Wanderlust: Romance on The Roam
- Fauna, Flora and Flotsam: Wonders of the World
- China or Cheyenne: Deciding Why to Go Where
- Montezuma's Revenge: Shoulda Kept My Mouth Shut in the Shower
- Cruising, Bruising and Boozing: Afloat and Ports of Call
- Sights, Sounds, Sensations: Making Sense of the Senses
- Jet Sets and Jet Lags: Getting There and Back
- Travel to Make a Difference: Itchy Feet Shod in Goody Two Shoes
- Can't Get There From Here: Lost and Found
- Right in Our Own Backyard: More Near than Far
Updated: 4/30/2012
Story Deadline: August 1, 2012
Thank you and good luck!
SUBMIT YOUR STORY HERE
About this title's co-creator
At 50, Terri Elders, LCSW, ran away and joined the Peace Corps, working overseas for 10 years in four developing countries: Belize, Guatemala, Dominican Republic and Seychelles. From 2000-04 she worked at Peace Corps Headquarters in Washington DC, providing technical assistance on health and HIV/AIDS issues in both InterAmerica/Pacific and Europe/Mediterranean/Asia Regions, visiting dozens of countries including Ecuador, Mongolia, Samoa, Guyana, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyz Republic, Ukraine and Thailand.
In 2003 the UCLA Graduate School of Public Policy and Social Affairs honored Terri as a Distinguished Alumna. In 2006 she received UCLA’s Alumni Award for Community Service.
In 2000 she married Ken Wilson. They shared adventures in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Canada, Alaska, Italy, Monaco and Malta.
Now widowed, Terri lives in the country in Northeast Washington with two dogs and three cats. In 2010 and 2011 she attended the University of Cambridge International Summer School. In 2012, the Dickens Bicentennial, she celebrated her favorite author by attending events in both Philadelphia and London.
Terri’s a public member of the Washington State Medical Quality Assurance Commission, and serves on the board of Colville Branch American Association of University Women. She blogs at http://atouchoftarragon.blogspot.com/
A lifelong writer and editor, Terri’s work has appeared in over 50 anthologies, including multiple editions of Chicken Soup for the Soul, Thin Threads, A Cup of Comfort, Patchwork Path, Whispering Angel and HCI’s Ultimate. She’s also written travel pieces for such periodicals as Caribbean Travel and Life, Transitions Abroad, International
Living, Costa Rica Times, Miami Herald and Orange County Register. She’s a contributor to the 2012 cookbook, Writers Abroad: Foreign Flavours.
“Terri Elders is in the habit of writing perfectly charming stories from her home near Colville, WA, in the Pacific Northwest.” –Mike O’Mary, publisher, Dream of Things
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