“Most travel, & certainly the rewarding kind , involves the kindness of strangers, putting yourself in the hands of people you don’t know and trusting them with your life. The risky suspension of disbelief is often an experience freighted with anxiety. But what are the alternatives? Often, there are none...” Paul Theroux
Jackie Chase travels the world meeting people from exotic cultures reaching for new challenges along the way. Even as a Midwestern housewife she felt compelled to share her adventurous nature with her four children.
Jackie is more of a writer who travels versus a travel writer, sharing secrets from unique people whose lives help us all in the way we look at the world.
Shirley MacLaine said it perfectly with, “The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves. I think of life itself now as a wonderful play I’ve written for myself and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.”
Friends have called Jackie a risk taker stepping out of traditional female boundaries. Meeting naked Mursi tribal men aiming AK 7 guns at her chest was certainly not on her planned itinerary for crossing Ethiopia. Her experience in and out of over a hundred countries taught her patience and respect in dealing with foreign cultures.
Three of her four books have won writing awards from the Beverly Hills International Book Writing Contest and one book won an award in the Royal Palm Literary Awards Contest.
Jackie’s most important observation from traveling can best be said in Lillian Smith’s quote,
“I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.”