In 1984, journalist and mother of four, Carolyn Walton, began her extraordinary global travel career with a story about Rio de Janeiro for the Ottawa Citizen. From the Amazon jungles to St. Petersburg's palaces, she traversed diverse locales, sharing tales that span the Caribbean, Baltic, Mediterranean, Ionian and Tyrrhenian seas, the Adriatic, North and South Pacific oceans. Walton's adventures include swimming with stingrays in Tahiti, kayaking with belugas in Hudson Bay, and deep-sea diving in the Bahamas. Her experiences extend to Lapland, dining with the Sami people, sipping billy tea in Australia's Outback, truffle hunting in Italy, and cooking in a Tuscany castello. The collection offers entertaining, often humorous stories from over sixty bucket-list destinations, revealing unexpected misadventures that add depth to the travel experience.

BOOKS:

Diary of a Mad Travel Writer (FriesenPress, 2019) $20.00 9781525544811

[BCBW 2024]