Life’’s Journey

Beginning with a family vacation when she is six years old and ending with a trip to her fiftieth country, Jan Shannon takes us across the United States and around the world in this travel memoir. She tells tales of the places she has visited, from California to Texas to Maine, from Denmark to Japan to Samoa. She introduces us to her family and traveling companions as she takes her children whitewater rafting in West Virginia, teaches English as a foreign language in Ghana and walks the paths of history in Israel. "Life's Journey" blends storytelling and travel writing to give us a look at one American woman's life through her travels.

Jan Shannon has worked as a newspaper reporter, travel writer, public relations consultant, administrator of high school exchange programs and travel agent. She combined the knowledge gained from all of these jobs to bring together her travels for this memoir. Now retired, Jan lives with her dog, Sierra, at the New Jersey shore. Careen Shannon is an attorney, author, editor and adjunct professor of law, with a specialty in immigration law. Having inherited the traveler’s gene from her mother, she was pleased to edit and publish this book for her. Careen lives with her partner, Bill, in Brooklyn, New York.