In a little pink room in her house, Danica had a wish-board, pinned with overlapping colour pictures from travel magazines of all the places she had ever dreamed of travelling. The board had been staring at her for probably two years; did she ever think it would come to fruition?

Danica did some calculations on how much an around the world ticket would cost her. It would be valid for a whole year - could she survive travelling for that length of time, especially on her own?

Backpacking through fifteen countries, Danica (a thirty-five year old mother of two teenagers) finds herself...