Laurie is the current organizer of the Albuquerque Solo Women’s Travel Club Meetup* and during the Covid-19 pandemic, she has been hosting Zoom meetings with members. The topic for the September meeting was “What travel-themed books do you recommend?” Here are a few of the responses.

A Year in Provence; My Twenty-Five Years in Provence
Peter Mayle

Book of the Eskimos
Peter Freuchen

Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip (PS)
Peter Hessler

Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert

Don’t Let’s Go To the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Alexandra Fuller

Magic and Mystery in Tibet
Alexandra David-Neel

Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone
Mary Morris

Pole to Pole (a TV documentary travel series)
Michael Palin (from Monte Python)

Paul Theroux, author of many travel books

Tales of the Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World; Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World
Rita Golden Gelman

The Corfu Trilogy
Gerald Durrell

The Wilder Shores of Love
Lesley Blanch

Travel & Leisure Magazine

Under the Tuscan Sun; Women in Sunlight
Frances Mayes

Travel for STOICs: Empowering the Solo Traveler Who Is Obsessive, Introverted, and Compulsive
Laurie McDonald writing as Eva Rome
www.bluemorphopress.net

Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
Alice Steinbach

* The “Solo Women” in the name means women who live on their own but want to travel with other women.