Synopses & Reviews
Womens travel is a thriving niche, as our first book by travel expert Marybeth Bond amply showed. To continue serving that eager market of traveling women, National Geographic presents
Best Girlfriends Getaways Worldwide. Each chapter takes off with stories of women who traveled with girlfriends to celebrate, grow, challenge themselves, or simply enjoy every moment to its fullest. They ran marathons to support favorite causes, cycled through Ireland, volunteered in Montana, overnighted at a French chateau. One woman recounts how she broke through her culinary comfort zone, telling behind-the-scenes stories of a weeklong cooking class in Tuscany. An altruistic adventurer describes her life-affirming volunteer vacation with a close friend, delivering books to schools in rural Nepal. The information-packed chapters suggest once-in-a-lifetime exotic escapes, trips to the worlds best cities, cultural hot spots, places to learn and stretch your mind, canal and river trips, and great culinary getaways. Each concludes with a targeted how-to section featuring websites and contact information to help readers set off on their own adventures.
Female baby boomers are not going quietly over the hillthey are roaring along the roads, waterways, and paths with style and humor. This is the book to guide them.
Synopsis
This work takes off with stories of women who have traveled with girlfriends to celebrate, grow, challenge themselves, or simply enjoy every moment to its fullest. Each chapter concludes with a targeted how-to section featuring Web sites and contact information to help readers set off on their own adventures.
About the Author
Marybeth Bond is a travel writer, consultant, and keynote speaker on womens travel. Her books include 50 Best Girlfriends Getaways in North America; Gutsy Women: More Travel Tips and Wisdom for the Road; A Womens World (winner of the Lowell Thomas award for Best Travel Book); A Womans Passion for Travel; A Mothers World; and Gutsy Mamas. She has been the travel expert for CBS/Evening Magazine and regulary appears on numerous television and radio shows. She currently serves as adventure editor at travelgirl magazine.