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Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Chapter 1: Tortola, British Virgin Islands

Chapter 2

Chapter 3: George Town, Grand Cayman

Chapter 4: London UK

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9: The Bahamas

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12: Luminaire

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15: Back to Tortola and Waterfall Cay

Chapter 16: London UK

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20: Six Months Later

Acknowledgements

About the Author

About the Publisher

To my family … with love. xx

Chapter 1

Tortola, British Virgin Islands

This morning, in bright sunshine and on calm waters, we’re heading back to Road Town, Tortola, the capital of the British Virgin Islands: the starting point of our round the world adventure eight months ago and today our final port of call. I gaze out from my viewpoint on the forward deck at the shimmering vista ahead of me and at what must certainly be one of the most beautiful sights in the world; a chain of tropical islands laid out like an emerald necklace.

I know I should be feeling elated, excited, or even triumphant about our return, but I’m feeling rather overwhelmed about it instead. That’s because I woke up this morning to realise that its’s exactly one year ago today that I grabbed my passport and got on a plane at Gatwick, leaving my whole life and my old life, behind me. A whole year.

And today, it feels quite literally and figuratively, like my life has come full circle.

So, while everyone else is busy and getting ready to disembark and celebrate our homecoming, I can’t help but to look back, rather than forward. I can’t help but to wonder what happens next for this backpacking housewife.

If this is the end of my journey? Or just another new beginning?

I’m torn in two by my conscience and my heart.

I have a big decision to make and it’s not going to be an easy one.

Do I continue to travel the world with Ethan? Or do I head back home to the UK?

I know that Ethan wants me to be with him. I know he loves me. And I love him.

But how do you tell someone who is something of a real-life Indiana Jones and who thrives on a life filled with endless adventure that you’ve started to think it might not be the life for you after all? That a life spent in perpetual sunshine while saving the planet has become too difficult for you? That the weeks and months and the thousands of miles of distance between you and those you’ve left behind is all too much?

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The Backpacking Housewife

The Next Adventure

JANICE HORTON

Chapter 1

Tortola, British Virgin Islands