Good
Morning Diego Garcia
by
Susan Joyce
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GENRE:
travel adventure/memoir
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BLURB:
When
Susan and Charles receive a letter from Cyprus friends, now in
Taiwan, they get a chance to help crew a sailboat from Sri Lanka
across the Indian Ocean. They have no clue what to expect. Susan
reminds Charles she isn't a good swimmer. He tells her a life jacket
will do the trick, and convinces her it's the opportunity of a
lifetime. A must-do travel adventure. They say goodbye to friends and
family in sunny California, fly to New York and on to India, arriving
the day the Indian government has issued a state of emergency. And
then onto the boat, and into the ocean. In monsoon season. With no
charts.
In this true-life travel adventure, Susan keeps a journal and record her bizarre thoughts and telling dreams. A real life thriller, Susan's monsoon-season journey is about discovery and spiritual realization—one dream at a time.
In this true-life travel adventure, Susan keeps a journal and record her bizarre thoughts and telling dreams. A real life thriller, Susan's monsoon-season journey is about discovery and spiritual realization—one dream at a time.
Excerpt
Ch 12
“Are
you afraid now?” Mia asked.
“No,”
I answered. “I wish I could stop the world and get off. I wish I
was experiencing another life in an alternative universe. A calmer
one.”
“Maybe
we are,” Mia said. “Maybe we are dead.”
“Maybe
we are and observing,” I added. “A future life.”
I was
surprised to see Mia smile. “A previous life.”
Charles
looked disturbed by the conversation and shook his head in disbelief.
“Susan,” he said, “enough!”
I
stopped talking when I noticed Dylan had joined us.
Mia
looked at him like she had seen a ghost.
“What's
the problem?” Dylan asked Charles.
“We're
all dead,” Charles said.
“We
died in a storm at sea,” Mia added.
“And
we will carry on sailing through eternity,” Charles said.
Looking
concerned, Dylan shook his head and went back to his room.
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AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
Born in
Los Angeles California, Susan Joyce spent most of her childhood in
Tucson, Arizona and returned to LA as a young working woman. Inspired
as a child by postcards from her globe-trotting great aunt, Susan
left the United States at age 20 to see the world.
She
planned on being gone for a year, but ended up living her 20s and 30s
in Europe and the Middle East. As a Jill of all trades, she worked as
a secretary, freelance writer, taught computer classes, wrote songs,
and became an accomplished artist while writing her first children's
book, "Peel, the Extraordinary Elephant."
An award
winning author and editor of children's books, Susan's first adult
book in her memoir series, "The Lullaby Illusion--A Journey of
Awakening" is a travelogue of the politics of Europe, the United
States, and Israel during a twelve year 'roller-coaster' period of
her life and an adventure of survival through friends and sheer
determination.
The
Lullaby Illusion was awarded
*
Readers' Favorite 5-Stars and the 2014 GOLD Medal Winner,
Non-Fiction--Travel in the 2014 Readers' Favorite International Book
Awards.
*
Honorable Mention Prize Winner--2014 Stargazer Literary Prizes
Her
second memoir, "Good Morning Diego Garcia" is about her
adventure from India and across the Indian Ocean in monsoon season in
1975.
Available
for pre-order:
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Morning-Diego-Garcia-Discovery-ebook/dp/B017S0ZXP6/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
Read
more about Susan's life adventures at: http://susanjoycejourneys.com/
Stop in
and say hello to Susan here:
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Sounds like an interesting story. Thats the sort of adventure that many of dream of, but never quite find the time, money, courage, etc. to do it. I'm always amazed (and a little envious) of those who do.
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Who hasn't wanted to drop it all and sail off like this? Anyone who hasn't read this, that is.
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I love the excerpt and I can't wait to read this!
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