Bonnie simply wanted a break after graduating from college. But unexpected things happened during a trip to Europe and she didn't return home for years. When Bonnie needed money, she did anything from working as a barmaid on an army base in Germany to helping the owner of an antique shop on a beach in Kenya; the red Volkswagen she bought in Germany often doubled as a hotel. Readers will be transported as the author attempts to drive from Cairo to Capetown in a post-colonial world and later, when she falls for a tall dark Frenchman and motors with him down the Usumacinta River searching for...