Rudy's Rules for Travel

Life Lessons from Around the Globe

Mary K. Jensen

• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Year: 2018
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781631523236
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

Most honeymoons, Mary knows, do not start this way. Lying outside on the sloping attic roof in Edinburgh, listening to the soft snores of her groom, she realizes that Rudy’s number one rule, “adapt," once again reigns.
Rudy’s Rules for Travel takes you across the twentieth-century globe with intrepid, frugal Rudy and his spouse Mary, a catastrophic thinker seeking comfort. Whether stalled in a Spanish car tunnel, stranded atop a runaway elephant, or held at rifle-point at a Soviet border, Rudy has a rule for every occasion—for example, “Relax, some kind stranger will appear.” Mary, meanwhile, has her deep breathing and her own commandment: “Expect the worst.”
The two are a picture of contrast. As Mary was being born, Rudy was a new American citizen flying US Air Force missions over his homeland, Germany. His father was a seaman, hers an accountant. And when this marriage of opposites goes traveling, their stories combine laugh-out-loud humor with poignant lessons from the odyssey of a World War II veteran. So start packing—you’ll want to join these two.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Chapter One: Edinburgh, Scotland, 1980
• Chapter Two: Mexico City, Mexico, 1976
• Chapter Three: Oaxaca, Mexico, 1979
• Chapter Four: Puerto Escondido, Mexico, 1979
• Chapter Five: West Germany, 1980
• Chapter Six: Italy, 1981
• Chapter Seven: Yugoslavia, 1981
• Chapter Eight: Spain and Portugal, 1982
• Chapter Nine: Czechoslovakia, 1983
• Chapter Ten: Berlin, East Germany, 1983
• Chapter Eleven: Hungary, 1983
• Chapter Twelve: Russia, 1983
• Chapter Thirteen: Finland, 1983
• Chapter Fourteen: Egypt, 1984
• Chapter Fifteen: New Zealand, 1988
• Chapter Sixteen: Thailand, 1990
• Chapter Seventeen: Bali, Indonesia, 1991
• Chapter Eighteen: Tibenham, Norwich, England, 1992
• Chapter Nineteen: France, 1994
• Chapter Twenty Cruises: Dipping Down into the Bucket
• Chapter Twenty-One: And Other Transitions
• Chapter Twenty-Two: Mary’s Rules For Travel
• Epilogue Rudy’s Rule
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author