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Avoiding Prison & Other Noble Vacation Goals: Adventures in Love and Danger by Wendy Dale Reviewed by Stephanie Olsen

A bomb-building brother, an aspiring jalapeño-chili-pepper-farmer-in-Honduras father, an incoherent mother spouting "Mom sequiturs" at random. This nomadic family's multiple manias provide the backdrop for Wendy Dale's "travel's just a game" adult adventures and philosophies, leading to such gems as: the "mango-continuum" (a size-distinction chart for determining whether to ask for a manga or a mango while in Costa Rica); her evidentiary support of the passive-tense life theory (a North American: "I dropped the plate" vs. the Latin American "The plate fell from my hands"); and, interpretation of Honduran road signs such as: "Don't leave your rocks on the highway". A rebel in her wanders, this very smart, very funny lady explores the world on her own terms, taking jailbird lovers and sneaking across borders, seeing non-existent good in too many people, but always ending up on top and at home any place in the world. To order a copy of Avoiding Prison & Other Noble Vacation Goals: Adventures in Love and Danger, click here. Stephanie Olsen, American expatriate home-schooling mother of two, is a published freelance writer and owner/editor of Family Life Abroad.

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