Athletic Women's Book Club discussion

Why did you join the group? What do you do for fun?

Women's Adventure Magazine has some possible suggestions for books for us to read:

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Hi everyone. I am a backpacker and love reading about adventures and exploration. I have also just completed my first book of adventure travel. I would love to have you add it to the group reading list. The title is TRAVEL WINGS: AN ADVENTURE. It is the account of a trip to the largest remaining virgin rain forest in the Amazon. Manu National Park in Peru is as large as the state of Rhode Island; it's protected so that only two ecotravel agents lead tours to the unrestricted corner of the forest.

Great! I will look into Travel Wings as well as Women's Adventure Mag.

Does anyone have a first choice on what to read?

Hi, I reckon women's adventure books are generally more interesting than mens... there is more reflection, introspection, less machismo...
Anyway, I am just reading a review copy of Felicity Aston's Alone In Antarctica (Solo journey across Antarctica) and would say it's one to keep an eye out for when published soon, especially if you're interested in polar travel.

As for me, I just published Desert Snow about my 2 year, 25,000km cycle ride through Africa to Cape Town (across the Sahara, tropics of West Africa, as well as paddling a pirogue down the Niger River and spending 3 months crossing the Congo).
Now I'm cycling across Asia and blogging as I go...

Helen, I am going to read both books. I peeked inside your book on Amazon and it looks fascinating. Where are you in Asia now?

Currently in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Hope to get biking again mid-week - I'm waiting to get my Kazakhstan visa first though. It's been a great place to hang around and watch the Naadam festival celebrations...

So if I read that right, you are headed back east and south? Are you following the silk road by chance? I have been longing to start in Xian, china and stop off for a couple of weeks at Dun Huang, but I can't find any tours or groups that spend more than half a day there. Apparently, they have shut down all of the cave ruins to protect the artifacts and visitors can only see two or three of them. So I will keep searching for special tours and put off the silk road for awhile.

I will head west through Mongolia and then back into Russia (not China) and on to central Asia.
I travelled (bus/train/hitching) from Xian-Dunhuang-Urumqi-Kashgar-Karakorum Hwy in 2005 - it was easy to travel and visit the caves independently then. Travel in China seems much harder now...

Happy to have joined the group! Hiking is my preferred activity and my husband and I tend to work it into all our travels. Our longest was the 17-day Snowman Trek through Bhutan’s Himalayas. The most difficult was a 9-day hike to Uganda’s Margherita Peak, the third highest mountain in Africa.

I wrote about hiking and other adventures in my first book, Dust in My Pack and am working on a second book.

I’m currently in Colombia for a month - to explore and gather stories for my next book.

I see our group has been a little quiet lately. Here’s a little motivation for those who love the mountains:
http://www.bynancyohare.com/travelblo...