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Cynthia Fletcher Rothstein

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in Portland, Maine, The United States

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http://spinningcompass.net/

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Travel, History, Nonfiction

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Bill Bryson

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Traveling and reading have been passions of mine from an early age. I was fortunate to be born into a military family, and set off on my first overseas adventure when I was two months old. I have lived in eight countries on three continents, and have visited countless more. Reading began a bit later on. I have four older sisters, one of whom wanted very badly to become a teacher and taught me the magic of reading when I was five. I discovered libraries (they let you borrow books for free!) when I was seven, and there was no stopping me. I'm a lifelong reading addict.

I started writing relatively late in life, and couldn't believe what a natural extension it was from reading. Last year, during a three-month vacation to the UK, I began bloggin ...more

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	Scotland at the speed of life: making ourselves at home on the road (Travel at the speed of life, #1) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	England and Wales at the speed of life: making ourselves at home on the road (Traveling at the speed of life, #2) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Once we arrived and were on the road, we fell into a routine each evening of going over the next day’s itinerary. Over time we started to modify our intended plan slightly—at first to accommodate the weather or our moods, but eventually because we were learning a better way to travel. Who would have thought that after more than fifty years of traveling there was anything I could learn about how to Read more of this blog post »

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