Hey Boomers Dust Off Your Backpacks

Quite possibly the world's oldest solo around-the-world backpacker, Linda J. Brown spent a year traveling throughout Eastern Europe, Turkey, Egypt, India, Thailand, Hawaii and the United States, turning 68 along the way. She challenges leading edge Baby Boomers to reclaim their 1960's backpacking style - this time on Social Security. After thriving on a limited budget while traveling around the world, making her plans as she went, Linda J. Brown busts the myth that the world is a dangerous place by telling stories of the friends she made along the way and detailing how it feels to be pushing seventy while carrying an 85-litre backpack, sleeping in hostels, riding local buses and trains and getting herself around whole continents for a year....alone. She financed all of this simply by accessing her monthly Social Security payments with her debit card from ATMs worldwide. The sale of an old volkswagon paid for her 'round the world air tickets. She is already planning her next RTW trip throughout the Southern Hemisphere for 2009 when she will be age 71.