Lorna Crozier, Jane Eaton Hamilton and Amanda Stevens are the three B.C. contributors to Outside of the Ordinary: Women's Travel Stories (Second Story Press, 2005). Crozier considers the disappeared in Chile; in New Zealand. Stevens confronts her fear of hitchhiking. In Hamilton's account of travelling to Mexico as a lesbian couple, feeling obliged to tick the box marked 'Single' at the Puerto Vallarta airport, she and her partner slowly agree to seek a same-sex marriage back home. Along the way the narrator is asked, "What is the difference between a Canadian and canoe?"; A canoe tips. Her partner Joy, a Japanese Canadian recovering from cancer surgery, consents to accept their next struggle: confronting the Canadian government. "I have a woman, and I want her to be my wife," says the narrator. "She has a woman and she wants to marry her. What we want is something every other Canadian--jailed Canadians, infertile Canadians, old Canadians, divorced Canadians, Canadians who smoke--can have unthinkingly, without anybody asking questions. I want to marry the girl of my dreams."