Sharlene Minshall

Widowed at 45, Sharlene Minshall began a twenty-year saga of solo, full-time RVing plus another few years of tenting and other camping via "the Astrovan." She went to Old Mexico's Copper Canyon to visit Tarahumara Indian territory, canoed the Yukon, mushed sled dogs, served as a dude ranch “cabin girl,” visited the polar bears in Manitoba, Canada, lived six months on a Baja Mexico beach and drove the mostly gravel Translabrador Highway to Baie Comeau, Quebec. This latest book is a collection of her previously published 30 years worth of columns, blogs, and book chapters that take you East, West, North, and South throughout Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. including Alaska.

It is not a "how-to" book or even specifically about RVing. It is about life on the road as she experienced it, the people she met, and the stories she couldn't resist writing. It is for anyone that loves traveling in beautiful North America or reading about it. Some stories will make you laugh or maybe even cry but they will definitely push you to do things you really, really want to do in this short life we are given.

She says, "Folks I met along the way were serious, funny, silly, thoughtful, kind, and sad, in other words, regular people. I wrote "Serendipity on Wheels, An RVing Adventure of the Mind, Body, and Soul" as a book you can pick up and read a few stories, then come back later and read a few more.

At 82, she says she still hasn't ridden a zip line through a rain forest or jumped out of a perfectly good airplane, "but maybe there is still time!"