Forty-eight years old, divorced and living in New York, author Laurie Woodford was having what some might call a mid-life crisis. Hungry for adventure, tired of the same old, or in fact a mid-life crisis, whatever you call it, it was the catalyst to what became a laugh out loud hilarious memoir, “Unsettled.”
Prepare to cry from laughing, live vicariously, and gain perspective of the world through the travels laid across these pages. With dating encounters that will have you belly laughing, like a gentleman with a wandering eye to the smooth, hairless complexion of someone entirely outside of Laurie’s self-described attraction to very hairy men. To travel adventures like caring for a seventeen-year-old dog in exchange for a free place to lay your head, or to coming home early from work to construction workers using your fridge and unit as their own personal lunchroom, the stories within are truly entertaining.
Asia to South America, Mexico to Arkansas and Oklahoma, “Unsettled” packs the true realities of adventuring, dating in your fifties, and working in foreign countries. Organized successively as a collection of experiences and events, author Laurie Woodford keeps readers coming back for more of her encounters and adventures. Detailing the lonely, the learning, the challenges with time differences, and moving on, this memoir provides the good, the bad, and the hilarious of Woodford’s unsettled adventures.
Aptly named, and expertly presented, “Unsettled” is quite the memorable collection of travelling escapades. Laurie’s hysterical antics and sidesplitting experiences made for an amusing and quick read.
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