Krista Marson

TIME TRAVELED is a highly entertaining compendium of travel stories retold by an inquisitive adventurer. Themes such as nature, history, and art rank high on her literary list, as well as loneliness and the importance of having someone to love. Tripping over the remnants of who we used to be, this explorer diligently follows the breadcrumbs left by those who came before.This book is the second installment of the Memory Road Trip series, an entertaining compendium of travel stories collected over 25 years. The author is a lover of the written word. She's passionate about nature, art, ruins, and how the past influences the modern age. She has traveled extensively and developed a unique perspective on the universal themes of life, love, and loneliness. Her memoirs are not travel journals per se, but rather introspective journeys to the mysterious self.Krista Marson has a unique voice and an infectious curiosity. Her travel stories are highly imaginative and represent a new approach to the art of memoir writing. Her tales are refreshingly uncommon, for she visits tucked-away places that few people ever travel. Her series of travel memoirs don't require reading in any particular order.

MEMORY ROAD TRIP is a collection of travel stories ranging from the sublime to the surreal as recounted by a former travel agent who saw the world on the cheap. The journey down memory road is a heartfelt excursion into the past that takes armchair explorers on an odyssey of life, love, and loneliness. The circuitous path is full of philosophical nooks and crannies, and many stories get told from the bottom of a psychological well. Readers will join this intrepid Gen X-er as she gets herself locked inside a cathedral, lost on the Oregon Trail, and held up at machete point by Zapatista rebels. Her passion for nature, art, history, and architecture gush across the page, along with her contagious curiosity in life and her pragmatic acceptance of death. Many of her stories speak to the angst that simmers inside all of us as we confront the many absurdities that exist in this world. The advent of COVID-19 has grounded this plucky explorer and has made her nostalgic for all the trips that she can no longer do. She started writing as a coping mechanism and discovered that she possessed a knack for putting her thoughts upon paper. MEMORY ROAD TRIP is not only an adventurous journey to certain parts of the globe, but it is also an introspective and witty journey to the mysterious self. For as large as the world is, it has grown infinitely smaller, yet currently exists relatively out of reach. Travel, for the moment, is safer done mentally these days, so now's the time to go on a MEMORY ROAD TRIP with someone who knows the way.