Trekking the Globe with Mostly Gentle Footsteps: Twelve Countries in
Twelve Months is an account of their trials and tribulations on a
journey across four continents. Their personal challenge was to travel
for the same cost as staying at home, while still adhering to their
older traveller’s motto “we are not here to suffer.” As they immersed
themselves in other cultures, their intention was to tread with Gentle
Footsteps leaving behind favourable impressions. The Mostly refers to
times when their footsteps, as a result of misunderstandings, were less
than ideal leading to bizarre, hair raising or humorous incidents.

However, nothing could deter these intrepid Canadian travelers ­­--
not even being forced off a train at gun-point at the Polish border or
having their motor scooter collide with a truck in India. Join the
Butlers as they learn many valuable travel lessons, including the most
valuable lesson of all “expect the unexpected.” Conclusively, their year
away was more daring, enlightening and wondrous than any previous
twelve months in their lives.

Irene Butler is an award-winning Freelance Journalist whose travels
have led her to Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia, North and South
America, and Mexico. Articles about her travel adventures have appeared
in a variety of magazines including Air Canada Vacations, Canadian
Traveller, Outpost Magazine, and Senior Living Magazine. She won an
award in the Destination Category at the 2005 B.C. Association of Travel
Writers Symposium. She continues to travel the world with her
photographer and fellow adventurer Rick.

Trekking the Globe with Mostly Gentle Footsteps: Twelve Countries in Twelve Months (Paperback)

By Irene Butler

$19.95

ISBN-13: 9781894694797
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Published: Granville Island, 7/2010

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