Season 6 - Ep. 138 Treks with Toddlers to Teens with guest Kate Wickers

This is the time of year when lots and lots of people travel so it makes sense to have a travel memoirist on our show. Kate Wickers is a British writer who has spent 25 years or so writing about her extensive travel experiences and publishing in magazines and newspapers all over the world. When COVID hit, she decided to turn her many travels with her husband and three sons into a collection of essays about what travel has meant to their family and the lessons they’ve learned from the experiences travel has given them.

Her memoir, Shape of a Boy, offers a collection of really great stories that will make any parent who has traveled with children go down their own memory lane to remember both the highs and lows of travel when kids are involved. And we’re not the only ones who think her memoir is pretty awesome. National Geographic Traveller listed it as one of the “9 Best Travel Books for 2022.”

You can find Kate Wickers on Instagram at @wickers.kate and at her website katewickers.com

Books Mentioned In This Episode:

1- Shape of a Boy by Kate Wickers
2- The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb
3- Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses by Kristen O'Neal
4- The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple by Ben Aitken
5- The Gran Tour: Travels with My Elders by Ben Aitken
6- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
7- Da Vinci's Cat by Catherine Gilbert Murdock