\ud83c\udfc6 2022 BIBA\u00ae Travel Memoir Winner!<\/p>\n
After early retirement, in 2017 Pam and her husband Dave packed four suitcases and one beer cooler full of insulin and boarded a one-way flight to Italy for a year-long dream trip.<\/p>\n
The dream<\/span> was to live like locals, find out-of-the-way restaurants, and watch the seasons change. But behind every dream, there is the reality.<\/p>\n What happens when two people retire from their full-time jobs and realize they have developed separate lives? Is it possible to reconnect, despite the stress of traveling, while living alone together, 24\/7, in small apartments? Is there such a thing as too much togetherness? Their dream trip came with other challenges\u2014managing Pam\u2019s Type 1 diabetes, dodging political unrest in Barcelona, and navigating water restrictions in Egypt.<\/p>\n Through the ups and downs of travel, Pam and Dave start to rebuild their lives together\u2026 and look for a little adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \ud83c\udfc6 2022 BIBA\u00ae Travel Memoir Winner! After early retirement, in 2017 Pam and her husband Dave packed four suitcases and one beer cooler full of insulin and boarded a one-way flight to Italy for a year-long dream trip. The dream was to live like locals, find out-of-the-way restaurants, and watch the seasons change. But behind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7189,"template":"","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_4417260021_4417260021":"","facebook_2752729431657742_150450788658353":"","facebook_2752729431657742_17841415386502662":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending"},"class_list":["post-6999","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","product_cat-2022-winners","product_cat-memoir","product_cat-non-fiction-travel-memoir","product_tag-pam-saylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/6999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}