Hey Ma and Iris,

Glad you are taking a look at it. I love the book. She is in Bali right now. She is saying she finds true spirituality. A spirituality she had been looking for her whole life in churches and spiritual places but never found. She ends up staying in Bali for 8 years! I cant wait to find out about her spiritual journey and why she stays for 8 years!

Ma, she gets her income from writing childrens books and that's it. These make her enough money to travel. I'm not sure what the 10,000 a year is about, but I really think that's all she makes a year on her books. At times she will only go away from home for the summer months other times she ends up staying in a place for years.

She experiences many incredible things and mostly people while she is abroad. It is these people that make her laugh and dance more than she ever has in her life. for example, I think her laughter mostly came from her experience in mexico. She lived with a mexican family that laughed harder than anyone she ever knew. When these people laughed they truely let it all out. From being around them for months she unconsciously began to laugh just as deep as they did. This to me is one of the true beauties of traveling. The people you meet can change YOU in deep ways forever!! I think when rita goes back hometo the states she laughs like she learned to do in mexico and is proud to have learned to laugh that openly.