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Book: Gutsy Women – More Travel Tips and Wisdom for the Road

Book: Gutsy Women – More Travel Tips and Wisdom for the Road

Marybeth’s most popular book! As seen on Oprah and the Today Show. Gutsy Women, for novice as well as experienced travelers, provides a wealth of fresh ideas on how to travel safely, comfortably, within your budget, alone, with your mother or children. Sections of the book address: The Older Adventuress, The First Time Traveler, The [...]

Book: 50 Best Girlfriends Getaways in North America

Book: 50 Best Girlfriends Getaways in North America

This fun, information-packed guide presents ten categories of Best Places for women to go with girlfriends, sisters, or mothers. The wide-ranging chapters have something for everyone. “Best City Getaways for Girls Who Just Wanna Have Fun” focuses on San Francisco, Miami, Quebec, New York City, and New Orleans. “Where to Celebrate Big Birthdays” suggests Las [...]

Book: A Woman’s World

Book: A Woman’s World

Marybeth’s best-selling first collection of travel stories, A Woman’s World, chronicled and celebrated the diverse and bold new ways women are exploring the planet. A Woman’s World won the prestigious Lowell Thomas Award for Best Travel Book of the Year and elicited not only critical praise but thousands of enthusiastic letters from readers. It is [...]

Book: A Woman’s Passion for Travel – More Stories from a Woman’s World

Book: A Woman’s Passion for Travel – More Stories from a Woman’s World

A Woman’s Passion for Travel: More Stories from a Woman’s World “Passion”: any kind of feeling or emotion — hope, fear, joy, grief, anger, love, desire-when vehement, overwhelming or of compelling force. In this follow-up to the award-winning A Woman’s World, meet women from all stages of life — college students and grandmothers, old friends [...]

Book: Gutsy Mamas – Travel Tips and Wisdom for Mamas on the Road

Book: Gutsy Mamas – Travel Tips and Wisdom for Mamas on the Road

Gutsy Mamas: Travel Tips and Wisdom for Mothers on the Road ­ In this pocket tome, Marybeth Bond dispenses invaluable advice on staying healthy on the road, traveling to third world countries and close to home, traveling to adopt abroad, and keeping children of all ages entertained and adults energized. If you have infants, toddlers, [...]

Book: A Mother’s World – Journeys of the Heart

Book: A Mother’s World – Journeys of the Heart

In stories close to home and far away, from Peru to Kenya and New York City to Ukraine, mothers recount adventures and experiences traveling with their small children, their grown children, and their own parents. They travel to find their adopted children, they become pregnant, and they recount the joys and pains of motherhood in [...]

Book: A Woman’s Europe

Book: A Woman’s Europe

A Woman’s Europe captures the magic of the Swiss Alps, the French countryside, the streets of Moscow, the isles of Greece, the country roads of Ireland, and much more with a uniquely female perspective. Some women travel solo, others with friends, family, or partners, but all have been drawn to Europe-for adventure, romance, culture, cuisine [...]

Book: Best Girlfriends Getaways Worldwide

Book: Best Girlfriends Getaways Worldwide

In 1985 Marybeth began writing about women travel and encouraging all women to ‘go for it’ alone, with friends, or groups. She knew her subject well, for she had just returned from two years traveling alone around the world. During this journey she met her future husband, an American, in Katmandu. Her eleven books cover [...]

By Travel Expert Marybeth Bond

Girlfriend Getaways. Researchers link good health with good friends

Now that researchers link good health with good friends, we have scientific support for taking off with our girlfriends. According to recent studies and a New York Times article (April 20, 2009), female bonding activities serve as very important stress management strategies and have health benefits and this may contribute to longer lives. Marybeth Bond, [...]