Desperate to escape South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest dreamed of becoming a foreign correspondent. So she headed to Russia looking for some excitement commencing what would become a four-year, twelve-nation Communist bloc tour that shattered her preconceived notions of the Evil Empire.
In Around the Bloc, Griest relates her experiences as a volunteer at a children s shelter in Moscow, a propaganda polisher at the office of the Chinese Communist Party s English-language mouthpiece in Beijing, and a belly dancer among the rumba queens of Havana. She falls in love with an ex-soldier who...

With its breezy reviews and insightful advice, "100 Places Every Woman Should Go" encourages women of any age to see the world in a group, with a friend, or solo and inspires them to create their own list of dreams. Based on her own explorations ofmany countries, states, and regions, and on interviews with travelers, award-winning author Stephanie Elizondo Griest highlights 100 special destinations and challenging activities from diving for pearls in Bahrain to racing a camel, yak, or pony across Mongolia; to dancing with voodoo priestesses in Benin and urban cowboys in Texas; to taking a mud...

Since publishing the original edition of A Woman's World in 1995, Travelers' Tales has been the recognized leader in women's travel literature. The Best Women's Travel Writing 2010 is the sixth book in an annual series that presents stimulating, inspiring, and uplifting adventures from women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves. The common threads connecting these stories are a woman's perspective and fresh, compelling storytelling to make the reader laugh, weep, wish she were there, or be glad she wasn't. In The...