Laurie Gough

Laurie Gough is a writer, teacher, and traveler whose work has appeared in national newspapers, magazines, and in Traveler's Tales: A Woman's World, which won the Lowell Thomas Gold Award for Best Travel Writing. She lives in Guelph, Ontario, but plans to move to northern California, where nature is big, majestic, and doesn't include winter.

• Kite Strings of the Southern Cross: A Woman's Travel Odyssey