The Jeudevine Memorial Library welcomes Kathy Elkind to the library to read from and discuss her book about the joy of long-distance walking on Monday, June 3, at 6:30 PM.
In 2018, Kathy Elkind and her husband decided to take a grown-up "gap year" in Europe and walk the 1,400-mile Grande Randonnée Cinq (GR5) across The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.
At fifty-seven, Kathy has chosen comfort over hardship: she and Jim get to indulge in warm beds, delicious regional food every night, and croissants in the mornings. But the GR5 is not all comfort. Walking day after day for ninety-eight days brings sickness, accommodation struggles, language barriers, and storm-shrouded mountains in the Alps. As the days unfold, however, she discovers her wise strength and realizes that a long marriage is like a long trail: there are ups and downs, and it takes hard work to keep going, but the beauty along the way is staggering.
Kathy Elkind is a long-distance walker, writer, and eater. Along with her husband, she has walked the GR5, the Anda-lusian Coast to Coast Walk in Southern Spain, and parts of the Cammino Mater-ano in Italy. She can be reached at www.kathyelkind.com. Kathy lives in the Mad River Valley of Vermont. TO WALK IT IS TO SEE IT is her first book.
This event is free and open to the public.