Anna is celebrating her retirement by writing novels. So far she has published three Regency romances and two mainstream literary novels. Another retirement project is Anna's undertaking of a "bucket list" project to walk across the United States from one ocean to the other. On her seventieth birthday, Anna began walking in Florence, Oregon. She plans to end up on the beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by the time she is eighty. She figures she may not be the oldest woman to undertake this journey, but she is probably the oldest fat, arthritic woman to do so. She's having the time of her life...