What Were We Thinking - Nancy Sathre-Vogel

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Title: What Were We Thinking?
Author: Nancy Sathre-Vogel
Genre: Memoir, Cultural
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 305
Date read: March, 2013

Before there was a family on bikes, John and Nancy teamed up for the ride of a lifetime. We arrived into Pakistan with little more than bikes and dreams. This book tells the story of that year on the road, and of our unlikely romance.

Not quite as good as "Twenty Miles Per Cookie" or "Changing Gears", but still WELL worth the read :) Although the title is very apt - what on earth were they thinking? ;)

I enjoyed reading this story of "how it all began" and getting to know more of the earlier stages of Nancy's and John's life. However, unlike their touring in the Americas, I have no real desire to visit that part of Asia, so though very interesting to read, it didn't give me the same kind of wanderlust.

Like Nancy, I was appalled by how she was treated by men and children in especially Pakistan and India. I would like to think that things have improved since 1990, but never having been to either country, I honestly don't know.

Still, I've got to agree with Nancy that the best way to experience a country is on bike, and for that reason I'd love to "do" New Zealand on bike some day... Until then, does anybody know of a book I could live vicariously through??? ;)