Cubicles to Coastlines

At twenty-eight, Kate had the resume of someone who'd done everything right: the college degree, the CPA license, a steady boyfriend, and a steady job. What she didn't have was any idea why she felt like she was suffocating. She booked a one-month trip to volunteer in the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador — and never looked back. Cubicles to Coastlines is a travel memoir about what happens when a short sabbatical turns into the adventure of a lifetime.  Starting with jungle labor in Ecuador, then backpacking across Southeast Asia, building a new life in Bangkok, and starting all over again in Australia — all while figuring out, one bizarre travel disaster at a time, who she was when the burden of expectations had finally been lifted. This memoir is for anyone who's ever wondered what's possible beyond the life they're supposed to want — to discover, somewhere between the stamps in a passport, that the trip was never really about the passport stamps at all. Funny, candid, and endlessly curious, Kate tells the story of a woman who took the scenic route to find herself.