MY GRANDMA IS MY TRAVEL ROLE MODEL
Like many of you, I have a travel hero. This person isn’t an expat backpacking around Switzerland, or a nomad chasing adventure down America’s highways. It’s my grandma, Bonnie Chance. The last time I called her, Bonnie was tackling a puzzle featuring “99 Beautiful Destinations.” She told me, “It’s been really fun, because as I’m putting it together, I can think, ‘I’ve been to that one, and that one, and that one…’ I think I’ve been to almost half.”
As it happens, I’d called hoping to chat about her traveling experiences. In the past decade, Bonnie has traveled to Alaskan oil fields, Southwestern caves, South Dakotan prairies, and small towns in New England,
