Janet Brown

Traveling Below the Speed Limit Janet Brown

Everyone has their favorite way to travel, from cruise ship voyagers to vagabonds on the open road. It's an all-consuming addiction--but what happens when age begins to slow a traveler down?



Traveling Below the Speed Limit describes different ways of travel and exploration: living in a foreign city, exploring familiar turf, venturing into the unknown territory of aging. A bus pass can serve as a passport; a city of residence can offer undiscovered experiences; a distant metropolis can become home for a month--or a year. And growing old, as that indomitable traveler Martha Gellhorn discovered, can be the last great adventure.



Take a trip with Janet Brown, whose essays show how daily life and travel intertwine as she wanders around Bangkok, finds unfamiliar delights in her home city of Seattle, and learns to enjoy life after sixty.